Japan's Agriculture Minister Koizumi Shinjiro has vowed to drive down rice prices to ensure that consumers will not shift ...

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

Reports about fraudulent online rice shops to consumer affairs centers around the country spiked to 335 cases in April and ...

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

A guide to Japan’s rice from past harvests, currently being released from government stockpiles in a bid to tackle high ...

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

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

Japan's agriculture ministry says that sales of stockpiled rice will widen to stores across the country on Friday.

Tokyo, June 13 (Jiji Press)--Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi suggested Friday that his ministry will drastically review ...

The shortage has continued to bite despite the government releasing 300,000 tons of rice from its strategic reserve three ...

Japan's farm minister said on Tuesday the government stood ready to offer more stockpiled rice as consumers formed long ...