Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has ordered the swift implementation of measures to give consumers relief from ...

Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry ...

The Japanese government will ease its policy on releasing stockpiled rice as a step to counter rising prices, altering the ...

Japanese homemaker Kirina Mochizuki has always considered "okonomiyaki" savoury pancakes the ultimate comfort food: simple, ...

Farm minister Tetsushi Sakamoto appealed ... stressing "the supply shortage situation will be gradually resolved. Rice is ...

At least a fifth of rice farms have reported a drop in quality ... Farming ministry data show that only around 15% of Japanese paddy fields have adopted heat resistance variants.

while farms in the plains tend to grow rice for sale on slightly larger plots. “As a Japanese person, rice is, of course, a staple food and an indispensable item. In Sado, many people are involv ...