It’s eaten with almost every meal, but a shortage of rice has sent prices soaring in Japan. The crisis has forced the ...

Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...

Japan is selling off its emergency rice stash for the first time since 1995 because prices have doubled, and would you ...

In Japan, rice is everything. From sushi to sweets, the staple is part of every meal. However, prices have been rising ...

Faced with an unprecedented rice crisis, Japan turned to its strategic reserves to stabilize soaring prices, a rare move that ...

China also has a strategic reserve of the country’s favorite meat, pork, to deal with emergencies and stabilize prices when necessary. In Japan, the first batch of 150,000 tons of rice went ...