The recent tumultuous rice price situation in Japan has been a rollercoaster ride. Beginning with a poor harvest in 2023 and a minor rice shortage in the late summer of 2024, many began to think Japan ...

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Japan is experiencing an unexpected rice shortage driven by a surge in both domestic consumption and an influx of tourists, according to local reports. The demand has led to a spike in prices, ...

In response to soaring supermarket rice prices, the Japanese government released 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency reserves in February 2025, despite an abundance of rice production in the ...

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. Remember ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan is facing its most serious rice shortage in three decades and has affected supermarkets across the country. Suppliers in Taiwan, which has maintained friendly ...