Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

Major convenience store chains FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-Eleven are set to begin selling reserve rice released by the Japanese ...

Chinese police say two Japanese men were killed last month in the port city of Dalian because of a dispute with a Chinese ...

Japan's farm minister said on Tuesday the government stood ready to offer more stockpiled rice as consumers formed long ...

Japan's farm minister said on Tuesday the government stood ready to offer more stockpiled rice as consumers formed long ...

Stores have started selling rice from the government's stockpile to feed demand for the staple Japanese shoppers braved the ...

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

(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 ...

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, ...