Unexpected detours, cultural wanderings and happy supermarket sprees are all part of the fun. Here's what our Japan road trip ...

It’s as if six billion bowls of rice went missing.” What’s happening with rice? Its price is a raging fever. Five kilograms ...

Rice prices in Japan have remained high despite hopes that they would normalize after the government announced plans two ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday disclosed plans with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to ...

That's a significant drop from the record 77 set in January. Rice prices at supermarkets across Japan have nearly doubled from a year earlier amid supply uncertainty. "It's hard to afford rice on ...

Japan stores about a million tons of rice for emergencies. The country has previously tapped into these reserves during disasters, but this is the first time since the stockpile was built in 1995 ...

The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down the surging price of the national staple. Rice shortages driven by factors from ...