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

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

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

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

"Our son, who hates eggs, moved out to uni, and the ease of eating this for weeknight dinners made that initial sadness a ...

The Japanese government announced on Monday it would sell 300,000 metric tons of brown rice from its stockpiles to major ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, ...

Japanese Farm Minister Apologises After ... hit crops and a tourism boom added to demand. For a 5 kilogramme bag, supermarket rice prices averaged 4,268 yen, up 54 yen from the previous week.

Lawson introduced new varieties of Japanese rice balls onigiri using ... the average price for a 5-kilogram bag of rice at supermarkets was 4,214 yen ($29) for the week ending April 6.

A 4-kilogram bag of Calrose will cost 2,894 yen, or around 20 dollars, about 10 percent lower than Japanese rice. Aeon says it will procure 14,000 tons after paying a tariff. Japan imports a ...