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

Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2% in June year-on-year, official data showed today, piling further pressure on Prime Minister ...

Japan's agriculture ministry says this year's rice harvest will likely increase by more than half a million tons from last year as prices remain high.

Japan's consumer inflation rose in June, as shoppers paid twice as much for rice compared to a year earlier. The internal ...

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

By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice ...

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

Japan's core consumer prices in June rose 3.3 percent from a year earlier, fuelled by persistently higher prices of rice and other food items, government data showed Friday.The key gauge of inflation ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

STORY: Japanese farmer Kazuhachi Hosaka has been growing rice for 30 years.But over that time, he’s seen his industry ...