Donald Trump’s pressure on Japan to import more US rice adds to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s political woes ahead of critical upper...
Rice prices at Japanese supermarkets have dropped for the sixth consecutive week, reaching a five-month low, according to the agriculture ministry's latest...
Japan's agriculture minister rebutted U.S. President Trump's claims, stating rice imports, including from the U.S., rose 120 times year-on-year and that Japan's...
Japan reaffirmed its stance on protecting domestic agriculture amid U.S. pressure to increase American rice imports. Despite a rice shortage and soaring...
Japan imported 10,605 tons of tariffed rice in May—3.5 times the total for all of fiscal 2024—driven by surging domestic prices and...
Japan’s private-sector rice imports surged to 10,600 metric tons in May amid severe shortages and doubled prices caused by extreme weather and...
India, the world’s top rice exporter, may soon find new demand from Japan, which is battling soaring rice prices and shrinking domestic...
Vietnam and Thailand, major rice exporters, are expanding japonica rice production to meet Japan's rising demand amid local shortages and high prices....
Japan will auction its first batch of duty-free rice for 2025 on June 27—three months earlier than usual—to curb high rice prices,...