U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi ...

TOKYO -- Japanese government-stockpiled rice released through no-bid contracts with retailers has hit store shelves in the ...

RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

The Japanese government's announcement that it would sell 300,000 metric tons of rice directly to major retailers to curb ...

Iris Ohyama began sales of government stockpiled rice at two of its home center locations ... distributed from 8 a.m., with a limit of one bag per person. The queue snaked from the store entrance ...

Government stockpiled rice went on sale at retail stores across Japan on May 31 after it was released through discretionary ...

(Kyodo News via AP) Large bags of several varieties of rice are ... He stressed the need to reform Japanese rice policy, which has focused on powerful organizations that represent farmers, to ...

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The Japanese government's stockpiled rice released through direct ... At an Ito-Yokado store in Tokyo's Ota Ward, 500 bags of rice sold out in just 30 minutes since its opening at 10 a.m. Other ...

Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear ...

European markets and U.S. futures jumped early Tuesday following a weekend trade truce between the E.U. and U.S. after Trump's threat late last week to tack on 50% imports from the trading bloc.