Japan's core inflation probably accelerated in March from the previous month as rice prices rose, a Reuters poll showed, a ...

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

A scarcity of rice is causing discontent among farmers and consumers in Japan and drawing attention to a policy some say has ...

If farmers install solar panels over their rice fields, their overall revenue, including income from selling solar-generated electricity, can･･･ ...

The Japanese government has announced plans to increase production of rice and significantly boost exports. This marks a ...

When Genki Sakurai began working for his family’s rice farm 17 years ago, there were more than a dozen rice farmers in his neighborhood in the city of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. Now, he says ...

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan will release its stockpiled rice every month until around the end of July, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, after the previous two releases appeared to have had little effect in ...

Tokyo (CNN) — It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet ...