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Japanese farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after remarks he made about rice triggered a firestorm of criticism from voters and lawmakers, posing a fresh challenge to Prime Minister ...
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The Japanese rice crisis - MSNExtreme shortages throughout the country have led to the Japanese government auctioning off its emergency rice stockpile for the first time. The debut auction in March saw 142,000 tons of grain up ...
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Japanese Rice Farmers Blame Shortages on ‘Misguided’ Government Rules.
Japan's farm minister said on Tuesday the government stood ready to offer more stockpiled rice as consumers formed long ...
That 700% figure, which Japan’s farm minister called “incomprehensible,” is not quite true. In 1995, after facing a rice crisis in 1993 and mounting pressure from the world to open up its ...
A survey released Friday suggested that 41.0% of large-scale rice farmers in Japan expect retail prices for rice harvested in 2026 to be lower than for rice harvested in 2025, while 22.9% ...
Japan's rice prices have doubled in a year, straining households and fueling political tension ahead of key elections ...
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'American and Japanese rice farmers can join forces': US ambassador says on exports - MSNTOKYO -- U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi Shimbun regarding exports of U.S. rice, stating, "American and ...
By understanding farmers' medium- and long-term plans on planting areas and others, the government aims to promote a drastic ...
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