Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

Of the new release, 100,000 tons of 2021 crop year rice will be sold first, to retailers of all sizes and local rice sellers with sufficient milling capacity, he said. The rest will follow from ...

Japan will release 200,000 more metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpiles to address the doubling in prices since ...

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

Tokyo (AFP) – The Japanese government said Friday it will release a fifth of its emergency ... the same amount of rice it released within a year. Rice consumption in Japan has more than halved ...

Japan enacted a law in 1995 for the government ... Tomohiro OSAKI The Japanese government said Friday it will release a fifth of its emergency rice stockpile after hot weather, poor harvests ...

Government leaders in Japan released emergency rice supplies as rising prices and poor harvest increase political pressure.

THE Japanese government said on Friday it will release its stockpile of rice - the nation’s cherished staple food - reserved for emergency use in response ... weather in 2023 sent demand into ...

The Japanese government said Friday it will release its stockpile of rice – the nation’s cherished staple food – reserved for emergency use ... into overdrive. Japan has continued to ...