Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...

The Japanese government is releasing stockpiled rice to retailers at reduced prices to address high consumer costs.

Sky-high prices, rations, emergency reserves. Japan’s rice crisis has ballooned, with the essential Japonica grain out of ...

fearing prices would fall, said Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. Japan could have avoided the problem by allowing more rice to be planted and ...

Japan has been grappling with soaring rice prices for months as inclement weather ... under Keio University’s faculty of policy management, who added that the number of farmers is also dropping ...

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

Japan has been grappling with soaring rice prices for months as inclement weather ... economics under Keio University's faculty of policy management, who added that the number of farmers are ...

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