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

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

Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high: in March the cost ...

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

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 ...

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

In response to escalating rice prices, Japan has released its strategic reserves of the staple food, aiming to stabilize the ...