Japan is taking the rare steps of turning to imports and releasing part of its emergency stockpile of the grain as the government struggles to meet demand.

As important as food supplies are, state-controlled agriculture almost always fails and often even results in famine. Plenty of real-life examples. Even in Japan, the police confiscated rice from ...

Japan plans to honor top chefs and other food experts with outstanding skills ... “We hope that a living national treasure will be selected from among those named ‘treasures of food’ someday ...

Last year shoppers looking to buy rice faced empty shelves. Rice is now available, but prices remain high: in March the cost ...

Japan has enforced new rules for dairy products, including condensed milk, powdered milk and products containing non-milk ...

The Japan office of South Korea’s National Agricultural Cooperative Federation said it brought in and sold 2 tons of Korean ...

In Japan, rice is more than just a grain; it is central to daily meals, festivals, spiritual offerings, and even language ...