Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio remained at 38% in the 2024/25 fiscal year ended March 31, unchanged from a year earlier ...

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Nobuo Kubo inherited his rice farm four decades ago, becoming the third generation in his family to look ...

Rice grown in dry fields in the first year of trial cultivation has been harvested here recently to the joy of the people ...

The average price decreased for the third consecutive week, but remained above ¥4,000 for the fifth week in a row.

Japanese retail and dining chains are boosting their in-house rice production to stabilize supply. The move comes amid ...

The harvest amount is expected to exceed 7 million tons for the first time since 2022, the agriculture ministry added.

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Japan's 2025 staple rice harvest is forecast to reach a nine-year high of 7,477,000 tons, up 10 pct from the previous year, the agriculture ministry said Friday. The harvest amount is, thus, expected ...

Since rice is the country's main crop and raw materials are readily available locally, the market potential for rice bran oil here is substantial.

A diffusion index showing the outlook for rice prices in Japan remained above the bullish-or-bearish dividing line of 50 in September, an industry group said Monday. The index stood at 57 in September ...

Iris Ohyama, whose goods are ubiquitous in Japanese homes, has relied on its usual offbeat methods during the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S.-China trade tensions to ride the teleworking wave and bring ...

A Vietnamese woman and her Japanese husband have been arrested in Osaka Prefecture on suspicion of smuggling 45 tons of ...