the increase in rice prices over a four-year period exceeded that of the price of fuel and feed for livestock over the same time frame. The decisive factor may have been the Bank of Japan’s ...

Japan plans to release some of its rice stockpiles reserved for emergency use in response to record domestic prices for the grain. The government will discuss selling part of its strategic rice ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has ordered the swift implementation of measures to give consumers relief from ...

Rice prices set a record high for a fourth consecutive month amid rising production costs. Wholesale prices paid to farming cooperatives rose 60 percent in December compared with a year earlier.

Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Japan is set to respond to the highest rice prices on record by making it easier to tap its ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has ordered the swift implementation of measures to give consumers relief from inflated food prices, including an unprecedented release of stockpiled rice to ...