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

Rice prices in Japan have doubled since last year partly due to supply shortages that began last year, triggering a national ...

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 ...

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

Japan plans to release another 200,000 tons of rice from government ... A sharp decline in stockpiles has raised concerns that the government's rice reserves could fall short in an emergency. Koizumi ...

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

Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi, who scrapped that system upon taking his post on May 21, said the government could also consider buying back rice from ...

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

Japan's farm minister said on Tuesday the government stood ready to offer more stockpiled rice as consumers formed long queues to snatch up cheap, emergency-use grain made available through some ...

This happened as rice prices almost doubled year ... The price rise has prompted Japan’s government to release some of its emergency stockpile into the market. Factors behind the shortfall ...