TOKYO (AP) — Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen ...
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. Remember ...
Sanae Takaichi came to power promising to tame inflation. But she’s boosting the crop’s cost to appease a subsidy-fuelled ...
The average price per 5 kilograms of rice sold at some 1,000 supermarkets in Japan in the week to Sept. 7 topped ¥4,000 for the first time since early June, the agriculture ministry has said. The ...
TOKYO -- In Japan, rice prices became lower for the first time in 18 weeks. This happened because the government started selling rice it had in storage. But experts say rice will still be expensive, ...
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