For Japan and many other countries, the vulnerability that comes with relying on U.S. markets has become startlingly clear.

Japan will release another 200,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile to tackle a doubling of prices since last ...

The top “Koshihikari” brand now sells for nearly 5,000 yen ($35) per 5 kilograms. Rice stocks at Japan Agricultural ...

To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach ...

Japan’s agricultural sector is highly exposed to climate variability. Rising temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, ...

Japan's farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Friday hinted at initiating emergency rice imports if the government fails to bring down prices, saying there should be no "sacred cows" in agricultural ...

Japan said on Friday that "all options" were being considered to stabilise rice prices, including the use of up to 100,000 ...

While domestic investors have been gradually trimming their stake in Rallis India, foreign institutional investors have been ...