Japan's average retail rice prices fell below 4,000 yen ($27) for the first time in four months, data showed on Monday, after ...

In a warming world that’s already affecting farming yields, one crop may be better positioned than others.

Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had aimed to push down rice prices to the ¥3,000-¥4,000 range by as early as mid-June.

The figure — which strips out costs for fresh food — was higher compared to expectations from economists polled by Reuters.

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar ...