By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency ...

TOKYO] Japan’s new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves ...

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak its purchasing policy to counter a shortage and rein in sky-high prices.

Japan’s core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent. This happened as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, ...

When Japan's farm minister declared that he never had to buy rice because his supporters give him "plenty" of it as gifts, he ...

The remark came in the midst of a rice shortage that has infuriated voters. “Frankly, my supporters give me quite a lot of ...