Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high: in March the cost ...

It’s eaten with almost every meal, but a shortage of rice has sent prices soaring in Japan. The crisis has forced the ...

Japan's ruling coalition is considering requesting the government to cut the sales tax rate as part of measures to cushion ...

The price increases in April reflect rising wages and logistics costs being increasingly passed on to consumers, research ...

The Japanese fast food chain Sukiya is temporarily closing its nearly 2,000 locations after a rat was found in soup a ...

The number of food and beverage items expected to face price hikes in April totaled 4,225, the highest since October 2023, ...

One of Japan's biggest restaurant chains is closing its outlets for deep cleaning, after two incidents of customers finding ...

Sukiya, Japans’s biggest beef bowl chain, will close its roughly 2,000 locations nationwide for four days starting on Monday, ...

Japan’s food wrapping film market is set for sustained growth, fueled by cultural values, demographic shifts, environmental ...

Japanese food and beverage companies will raise prices on more than 4,000 products starting Tuesday to offset higher costs ...

Japan's new food supply emergency measures law took effect on Tuesday, allowing the government to instruct farmers to submit ...

Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in ...