Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak ...

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

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 ...

Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The ...