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Japan supermarket rice prices fall for third straight week
Japan's average supermarket rice prices fell for the third straight week through June 8, data showed on Monday, reflecting ...
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CNA938 Rewind - Grain drain: Japan struggles with a rice crisis
Sky-high prices, rations, emergency reserves. Japan’s rice crisis has ballooned, with the essential Japonica grain out of ...
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41% of Japanese rice farmers expect price drop in 2026
A survey released Friday suggested that 41.0% of large-scale rice farmers in Japan expect retail prices for rice harvested in ...
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Emergency reserves, high prices, rationing. How did Japan's rice crisis get this far?
Japan's Agriculture Minister Taku Eto, center, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Credit: AP Rice started disappearing from supermarket shelves, and prices ...
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Farm minister in Japan, where rice prices are soaring, resigns amid outrage after he said he gets rice for free
Japan has been grappling with soaring rice prices for months as inclement weather ... under Keio University’s faculty of policy management, who added that the number of farmers is also dropping ...
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Japan's rice crisis: Prices soar, supplies dwindle and a minister resigns
fearing prices would fall, Kazuhito Yamashita, research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. Japan could have avoided the problem by allowing more rice to be planted and exporting ...
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Japan's farm minister said he has never had to buy rice. That cost him his job
Japan has been grappling with soaring rice prices for months as inclement weather ... economics under Keio University's faculty of policy management, who added that the number of farmers are ...