The price of rice in Japan has doubled in the last year. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Pittsburgh scholar Kay ...

By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain ...

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

Japan's core inflation cooled to 3.3% in June, coming down from a 29-month high of 3.7% as rice inflation showed signs of ...

Rice prices in Japan more than doubled in May, spiking 101.7% year over year and marking their largest increase in over half a century. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. The huge ...

While Japan’s agriculture ministry has been trying to curb soaring prices by releasing government stockpiles, the move has had little effect in reining in prices. Rice prices in around 1,000 ...

It’s eaten with almost every meal, but a shortage of rice has sent prices soaring in Japan. The crisis has forced the government to release emergency supply.

Japan is one of more than 20 countries receiving letters this week from the US president warning of "reciprocal" tariffs from ...

Donald Trump's insistence that "spoiled" Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's problems ahead of elections that could sink his premiership after less than a ...

The Japanese government has been under fire for the skyrocketing rice prices, which have roughly doubled in 12 months. (EPA Images pic) Donald Trump’s insistence that “spoiled” Japan imports ...

Trump wants to get Japanese firms to manufacture more in the United States and for Tokyo to buy more US goods -- notably gas and oil, cars and rice -- to reduce the $70 billion trade deficit with ...