The ban on Rice Krispies in Japan is more than just a health restriction—with its multi-layered regulations on health ...

It’s eaten with almost every meal, but a shortage of rice has sent prices soaring in Japan. The crisis has forced the ...

The question of how Japanese people manage to maintain some of the lowest rates of heart disease in the world while consuming ...

Rice prices in Japan last month were almost twice what they were a year earlier, official data showed Friday, as core ...

TOKYO >> When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did ...

Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high: in March the cost ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food have been booming. Producers shipped a record amount of rice overseas ...

Japan has revamped its agriculture policy to target a sharp increase in rice exports over the next five years. The move comes ...

from global food and agriculture bank Rabobank, told the site. While that pales in comparison to the amount eaten by the Japanese themselves, rice consumption in the country has been dropping ...