Aeon will start selling California-sourced rice on June 6 at its stores, mainly in urban areas. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Japan's supermarket operators have been strengthening sales of cheaper, foreign-grown rice, offering another choice to consumers hit by rising prices and concerns about shortages of the country's ...

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

This is a country in which every art form and indeed every practice in life is taken seriously, with patience and skill applied to their perfection.

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The Japanese government plans to curb retail prices of stockpiled rice to some 2,000 yen per 5 kilograms, agriculture ...

Government data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation jumped to 3.5% in April, its highest in more than 2 years. The rise ...

Asia-Pacific stock markets concluded Friday's trading session with a mixed scorecard as investors diligently parsed a wide ...

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The official data released Friday showed rice prices up a whopping 98.4 percent compared to April 2024 following a 92.5-percent increase in March ...

The top “Koshihikari” brand now sells for nearly 5,000 yen ($35) per 5 kilograms (11 pounds). Rice stocks at Japan ...

The core inflation figure was higher than expectations of 3.4%. Headline inflation climbed 3.6% from a year ago. Japan’s core ...