By Kaori Kaneko KISARAZU, Japan (Reuters) -At a farmer's market not far from Tokyo, more than 100 shoppers queued for a ...

At a farmers market near Tokyo, over a hundred shoppers queued for a chance to scoop up a kilo of rice for just 500 yen ...

Japan's near-record rice prices burden consumers as inflation soars. New PM Takaichi must tackle the food cost crisis.

Rice is a point of pride in Japan, and the choice was a break from the typical diplomatic practice of showcasing local ingredients. By John Yoon The rice on the table wasn’t Japanese when President ...

Record high temperatures in Japan could curb the country’s rice production, threatening to create shortages of the staple grain and fresh price spikes as public resentment mounts over cost of living.

Bags of rice are seen at the entrance of a shop in Tokyo. Rice prices soared 90.7 percent in July year-on-year, but the rate of increase slowed from previous months ...

Japan will handle US demands to buy more American rice within the confines of its existing overall cap on duty-free imports and has no plans to lower its tariffs on farm products, according to Tokyo’s ...

A Trump administration request that Japan buy more US rice caused this week’s snag in bilateral trade talks as Tokyo “strongly objected” to the condition, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday.