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Rice price surges in Japan since last summer were caused by wholesalers procuring rice through different routes than in previous years, a government white paper on agriculture said Friday.

Nineteen Japanese companies have applied to purchase the government's stockpiled rice, with contracts expected to be finalised and rice delivered to them as soon as Thursday, Agriculture Minister ...

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Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, or Farms Taki Eto resigned Wednesday after his comments over the price of rice led to a national backlash.

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Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak its purchasing policy to counter a shortage and rein in sky-high prices.

TOKYO -- The Japanese supermarket Aeon Co. will start selling new rice called "Karoyaka" from the U.S. state of California on June 6. They will do this because rice from Japan has become expensive.

Japanese retailers are turning to California-grown rice, known as Calrose, as an alternative to Japanese rice, which remains pricey and hard to come by.

"U.S. rice can hardly compete with Southeast Asian rice in terms of quality, appearance, taste, and price," the paper states.