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

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

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile ... on top of 310,000 released from emergency stockpiles since March, which marked the ...

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

I made an extremely inappropriate remark at a time when consumers are struggling with soaring rice prices,” Taku Eto said.

In response to surging rice prices, the newly appointed farm minister announced plans to scrap the bidding system and begin ...