Vietnam and Japan in tie-up on rice development

Scientific cooperation and technology transfer between Vietnam and Japan are opening up a strategic pathway for Vietnam's ...
Courthouse News Service

Japan's rice crisis: Prices soar, supplies dwindle and a minister resigns

A rice field in Mito, Japan, where farmers are being encouraged to grow more of the staple crop to make up for shortages on store shelves, on Wednesday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Elaine Kurtenbach) ...
Reuters

More Japanese embracing foreign rice, even before it became a tariff topic

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an ...
CNN

Rice crisis: Japan releases strategic reserves to ease prices of nation’s most important food

It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are ...