Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday he aimed to get rice on store shelves for ...

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

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

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

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 rice prices have surged over 150%, triggering supermarket rationing, emergency reserves, and a ministerial ...

The core inflation figure was higher than expectations of 3.4%. Headline inflation climbed 3.6% from a year ago. Japan’s core ...

The consumer price reading rising 3.2% will likely cement expectations that the central bank will raise interest rates.

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

Japan's new agriculture minister says the government is considering changing the way it sells the country's reserve of rice stocks. It's the latest measure aimed at tackling the surging prices of the ...