Japan’s furor over rising rice prices is a reminder that state security is built on food.

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

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

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki's rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

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 ...

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

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

TOKYO, June 10 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan plans to release another 200,000 tonnes of rice from government stockpiles through ...

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

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

To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach ...

The Japanese government has started releasing low-cost rice from its emergency stockpiles as market prices soar to record ...