Whether it’s posting pictures of him eating gyudon (beef bowl) between meetings or holding rice balls at campaign stops, Shinjiro Koizumi has worked hard to portray himself as a regular Tokyoite. The ...

The country's staple rice production is forecast to fall 370,000 tons from 2025, the agriculture ministry has said.

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 ...

Japan's farm ministry said Friday it would set its rice production target for 2026 at 7.11 million tons in line with the ...

Toru Yamano, chairperson of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-Zenchu), met with farm minister Norikazu ...

As Japan faces soaring rice prices, the country needs an agricultural policy providing a blueprint for the stable supply of ...

Donald Trump threatened Japan with higher tariffs after accusing it of refusing to buy American rice, despite data showing otherwise. “They won’t take our RICE and yet they have a massive rice ...

Remember when the price of eggs became a major issue in American politics? Well, in Japan, something similar is happening with rice. The price of this staple doubled in the last year, and that's one ...

Not only do the makers of Kinmemai Premium claim that it’s the world’s best rice, but in 2016 Guinness World Records recognized it as the most expensive rice on the planet.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as a ...

Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture minister of Japan, eats a rice ball during his visit to a rice farm in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Credit - Soichiro Koriyama—Getty ...