Facing a severe rice shortage and skyrocketing prices, Japan is increasingly turning to foreign rice varieties. This shift ...

Tamaki Ishii and Kazuma Yamagami (both 26) established their Tokyo-based studio after leaving university where they studied ...

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

The protest comes on the back of broader anxieties about Japan’s most sacred staple. Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high ...

Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...

Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are at least six ways in Japanese to describe the grain, from unhusked to ready to eat. It’s so popular that McDonald’s there added a burger ...

The retail price for five kilograms of rice in the last week of March was 4,206 yen ($29), up 104.5 percent year-on-year. Japan is aiming to boost its rice exports almost eightfold to 350,000 ...