Japan's agriculture minister has pitched a plan to reduce the price of rice as consumers struggle with soaring costs.

Japan will release an additional 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile by July to address a nationwide ...

Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where ...

Shoppers may soon get welcome relief for soaring rice prices as the government started the release of its massive stockpile of the staple food stored for emergencies on March 18. The government ...

(Mainichi/Kazugi Yamaguchi) TOKYO -- Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise for 15 consecutive weeks despite the release of crops ... the price of their stock by about 100 yen (some 70 ...

TOKYO: Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak its purchasing policy to counter a shortage and rein in sky ...

Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are at least six ways ... that the government announced in February that it would release 210,000 tons of rice – more than a fifth of what ...

Government data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation jumped to 3.5% in April, its highest in more than 2 years. The rise ...

"Rice is everything" in Japan, according to Firstpost ... major earthquake along the Nankai Trough that led shoppers to stock up in fear. As a result, prices shot up to around 23,350 yen (£ ...

TOKYO - Japan's new ... emergency-use rice and said the government would instead sell via discretionary contracts. The government first released rice from its emergency stock in March through ...