Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm ...

By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain ...

While millet was a dietary staple in Korea, especially during the Bronze Age, it barely shows up in early Japanese diets.

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the last year. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Pittsburgh scholar Kay Shimizu about what's behind the shortage in the homeland of sushi.

HAENAM, South Korea / TOKYO: Japan is grappling with rice shortages and price hikes, forcing it to ramp up imports. Just ...

The Trump administration has threatened Japan with 25 percent tariffs. River Akira Davis, our Tokyo correspondent, explains ...

Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 percent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday, piling further pressure on Prime ...

The increase in rice prices slowed marginally to a 100.2% increase year over year, down from 101.7% in May.

While Japan’s rice crisis is especially severe, it’s also part of a broader trend: Food prices around the world have been ...

Rice stocks at Japan Agricultural Cooperatives and other commercial wholesalers have been 400,000 tons short of last year's levels, hitting a record low 1.53 million tons as of June, farm ministry ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims ...