Following shortages of rice on supermarket shelves across Japan, the agriculture ministry on Sept. 6 started distributing ...

KUMAGAYA, Japan >> Grappling with a rice shortage after extreme weather ravaged last year’s crop, Japan is hoping new heat-resistant varieties of its staple food can help stave off future supply ...

Japan is currently facing what some are calling the “Reiwa Rice Riots“—a tongue-in-cheek term for the rice shortage in Japan ...

Japan is experiencing a shortage of the crucial staple, with an inelastic supply likely being the primary cause.

Shoppers in Japan have been facing rice shortages at retailers as the average wholesale price rose sharply in August to its ...

TOKYO -- Following shortages of rice on supermarket shelves across Japan, the agriculture ministry on Sept. 6 started distributing videos showing the harvesting and shipment of rice to ease ...

The fine crop of rice harvested this year has finally begun to hit store shelves, set to gradually alleviate a serious ...

Japan. “Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in ...

Enrico R. Crema [Opens in a new window], Rice agriculture was brought to Japan during the first millennium BC by migrant communities of farmers from the Korean peninsula. Substantial geographic ...

Japan is experiencing an unexpected rice shortage driven by a surge in both domestic consumption and an influx of tourists, ...

Japan has emerged from its hottest summer to its biggest rice shortage in 30 years, with empty shelves, surging prices and the government imploring shoppers not to panic buy.

Extreme weather, a recent earthquake and an influx of hungry tourists are among several factors that have caused a rice ...