The Japanese government plans to curb retail prices of stockpiled rice to some 2,000 yen per 5 kilograms, agriculture ...

Government data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation jumped to 3.5% in April, its highest in more than 2 years. The rise ...

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

Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, official data ...

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

Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent as rice prices almost doubled year on year, official data ...

Japan's new agriculture minister Koizumi Shinjiro has pledged to tackle soaring rice prices as he officially takes over from ...

Japan’s agriculture minister has resigned because of political fallout over his comment that he “never had to buy rice” ...

Japan’s agriculture minister has resigned over his controversial comments about getting free rice from supporters amid ...

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

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday sacked farm minister Taku Eto over a controversial remark that sparked ...

Eto's controversial comments came when his ministry decided to release rice from emergency stockpiles to help curb prices that have roughly doubled from a year earlier due to a poor harvest, and the ...