Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 percent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday, piling further pressure on Prime ...

Japan's shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt ...

While Japan’s rice crisis is especially severe, it’s also part of a broader trend: Food prices around the world have been ...

Yet a turning point in human history is underway. According to UN projections, the number of people in 85 countries will be ...

With elections coming in Japan, the threat of U.S. tariffs is forcing its prime minister to start talking tougher, and is getting people to rethink long-held assumptions about relations with the U.S.

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From June 30 to July 3, 2025, around 15,000 delegates from over 190 countries gathered in Sevilla, Spain to take part in the Fourth International Conference on “Financing for Development” or FfD4. The ...

Japan though it had a special relationship with the U.S. Now, Tokyo is finding that its security alliance counts for little ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan board member Junko Koeda said she was keeping a close eye on possible second-round effects on ...

The postwar agricultural policy on rice that has given more consideration to producers than consumers has revealed its limitations due to the high prices of the grain during the so-called “rice ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

Japan is one of the world’s top 10 consumers of rice, but the country has faced a domestic crisis after the cost of the crop surged over the past year.