Rice prices in Japan have continued to rise for 15 consecutive weeks despite the release of crops stockpiled by the ...

The protest comes on the back of broader anxieties about Japan’s most sacred staple. Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high ...

Maybe the whole sellers are stockpiling rice but not families, what's this assumption based on by the Japanese government. I asked dozens of people and not one had more than one bag of 5 kilos in ...

"Rice is everything" in Japan, according to Firstpost, but consumers are facing a crisis: the country is running out of supplies and the price is rocketing. Extreme shortages throughout the ...