Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm ...

Japan’s ongoing rice shortage is bringing greater awareness to farmers’ issues, and greater scrutiny to the long-dominant ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

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

The increase in rice prices slowed marginally to a 100.2% increase year over year, down from 101.7% in May.

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

The governing coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is likely to lose a majority in the smaller of Japan’s two ...

The Trump administration has threatened Japan with 25 percent tariffs. River Akira Davis, our Tokyo correspondent, explains how automobiles and rice have become the two major sticking points in the ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims ...

A father and son in Tokyo are continuing the centuries-old tradition of making tsukudani, a preserved Japanese food. At their ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tsukudani, a sweet, Japanese side dish often served with hot rice, originated in the samurai era in a tiny ...