Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

NAGOYA, Japan >> Aichi prefecture is striving to increase rice production amid high rice prices across Japan. But the ...

Japan’s furor over rising rice prices is a reminder that state security is built on food.

Satellite, artificial intelligence, and other technologies would be used to determine how well rice crops have grown.

Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...

Rice prices in Japan have doubled since last year partly due to supply shortages that began last year, triggering a national ...

All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki's rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts Monday, aiming to slash soaring prices after the newly appointed farm minister pledged to bring them down to ...

This week Japan's farm minister resigned after a gaffe about rice that drew public fury. Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year ...

The price of Japanese-grown rice is soaring due to high inflation, low farm yields and a growing tourism sector. Arata Hirano prepares a tray of cooked California-grown Calrose rice and side ...

Japan's farm minister resigned Wednesday after a gaffe about rice drew public fury in a country experiencing soaring prices of the cherished staple. Taku Eto told a gathering over the weekend that ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Farm Minister Taku Eto resigned Wednesday after facing a backlash over a remark that struck a nerve with a public suffering from soaring rice prices, dealing a blow to ...