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

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 June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...

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

Rice prices hike by 98% despite Japan's imports for 1st time in years due to decreased production, with no projection for ...

The government decided on Friday to prohibit the reselling of rice purchased at retail shops to ensure that rice reserves ...

A simmering crisis over staple rice has suddenly boiled over in Japan. Since 2023, a punishing heatwave slashed harvests to their lowest in over a decade.  As of June 2025, a 5-kilogram bag of ...

TOKYO, June 10 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan plans to release another 200,000 tonnes of rice from government stockpiles through direct contracts with retailers, farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on ...

Under a "minimum access" agreement within the World Trade Organization, Japan has an 770,000-ton tariff-free import quota for ...

The average retail price of rice has declined for the second week in a row, the first such consecutive drop in about six ...

In recent years, Japan's rice stockpile had only been tapped in the wake of natural disasters. "The government has always told us that they would not release its emergency rice stocks to control the ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Japanese space technology company, iSpace, has confirmed that their spacecraft, which was undergoing ...