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

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

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

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 ...

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