At a farmer's market not far from Tokyo, more than 100 shoppers queued for a chance to get a kilo or so of Japanese rice for ...

Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture minister of Japan, eats a rice ball during his visit to a rice farm in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit - Soichiro Koriyama—Getty ...

Japan's near-record rice prices burden consumers as inflation soars. New PM Takaichi must tackle the food cost crisis.

At a farmers market near Tokyo, over a hundred shoppers queued for a chance to scoop up a kilo of rice for just 500 yen ...

The recent tumultuous rice price situation in Japan has been a rollercoaster ride. Beginning with a poor harvest in 2023 and a minor rice shortage in the late summer of 2024, many began to think Japan ...

The country's staple rice production is forecast to fall 370,000 tons from 2025, the agriculture ministry has said.

As Japan faces soaring rice prices, the country needs an agricultural policy providing a blueprint for the stable supply of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...

Rice is Japanese sake’s main raw ingredient and a critical factor in determining quality. Approximately 3% of Japan’s total rice production is used for sake brewing, and the types of rice used to make ...

Japan’s farm minister Taku Eto stepped down on Wednesday, domestic media reported, following public outrage over his comments on getting free rice. Eto said Sunday that he has never had to buy rice as ...

Whether it’s posting pictures of him eating gyudon (beef bowl) between meetings or holding rice balls at campaign stops, Shinjiro Koizumi has worked hard to portray himself as a regular Tokyoite. The ...