TOKYO >> Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July ...

Japanese agriculture minister Eto Taku has retracted a comment he made about rice over the weekend. Eto apologized and ...

Japan's farm minister Taku Eto on Monday came under fire after saying that he does not need to buy rice because he receives ...

TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency ... 310,000 released from emergency stockpiles since March, which marked ...

Japan's agriculture ministry said on Friday it will hold its fourth auction of rice from government stockpiles later this ...

Rice prices continue to surge in Japan due to a combination of factors, ranging from inbound tourism and hoarding to poor ...

The nationwide average price of rice in Japan recently marked the first decline in 18 weeks following the release of ...

TOKYO, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government plans to roughly double the supply of stockpiled rice to about 600,000 tons and relax bidding conditions for the purchase of its reserve rice ...