Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

But in Japan, it’s become a stark reality as a rice shortage sends prices soaring. A 5 kilogram (11 pound) bag of rice cost 4 ...

HAENAM, South Korea / TOKYO: Japan is grappling with rice shortages and price hikes, forcing it to ramp up imports. Just ...

Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has issued an alert against stink bugs to farmers for the second straight year. The insects ...

The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the last year. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Pittsburgh scholar Kay Shimizu about what's behind the shortage in the homeland of sushi.

Farming communities, a key base for the Liberal Democratic Party, are increasingly voicing their distress at how the rice ...

By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain ...

Summary The Philippines, with its abundant natural resources and vibrant cultural legacy, should by all indicators be a ...

Japan is expected to produce 7.35 million tons of rice this year, marking a record increase of 560,000 tons from the harvest ...

Japan has spent decades encouraging farmers to grow less rice, afraid that oversupply could cause prices to collapse. But amid shortages and soaring prices, the government suddenly has a different ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively high and steady. Now ...