Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry ...

The Japanese government will ease its policy on releasing stockpiled rice as a step to counter rising prices, altering the current stance of limiting discharge to times of poor harvests, the farm ...

Rice production in the prefecture suffered 13.5 ... of first-grade rice fall by 10 percentage points or more. In Japan, rice is ranked based on the proportion of high-quality grains, which are ...

Japan is set to implement a policy enabling the government to instruct farmers to submit production increase plans if ...

The government will discuss selling part of its strategic rice reserve next week, the agriculture minister said Friday.

In western Japan, agricultural cooperatives in Kagawa ... pushing up costs for rice production,” said a representative of the Tochigi prefectural headquarters of the National Federation of ...

Rice prices set a record high for a fourth consecutive month amid rising production costs. Wholesale prices paid to farming ...

In some major production areas, yields decreased last year as extreme summer heat and lack of sunshine hurt harvests. Extreme heat led to rice crop failures last year. Factors beyond Japan's ...

Japan's farm minister on Friday said the government plans to release its stockpiled rice for the first time to alleviate ...

The number of food items whose prices are set to be raised in February is up 1.8% from a year before at 1,656, a survey by ...

By combining growth-enhancing microbes with the organic waste generated during rice production, a research team in Japan aims to create a functional compost tailor-made for rice cultivation.

But exports still make up a tiny fraction of overall sake production in Japan ... are the rice and the water. For a product to be categorized Japanese sake, the rice must be Japanese.