All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki's rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

Japan is taking more action to tackle shortages and soaring prices of rice, releasing more from stockpiles into the domestic ...

This year's first auction for rice as staple food will take place on June 27 instead of the usual September, agriculture ...

Japan plans to release an additional 200,000 tons of rice from government stockpiles through direct contracts with retailers, ...

The top “Koshihikari” brand now sells for nearly 5,000 yen ($35) per 5 kilograms. Rice stocks at Japan Agricultural ...

Government leaders in Japan released emergency rice supplies as rising prices and poor harvest increase political pressure.

Japan's farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi has returned to the political spotlight by launching a push to lower rice prices amid ...

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 ...

At a game center in this eastern Japan city near Tokyo, children try to win prizes in a crane game. But here, the winnings ...

Rice is where consumers have drawn the line. The staple rose by 98% in the past year, adding almost half a percentage point ...

The Japanese government is aiming to lower rice prices by selling further supplies of stockpiled rice directly to retailers.