Japan is considering increasing its soybean and rice imports as a concession in trade negotiations with the U.S. over ...

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Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...

The head of Japan's junior coalition partner said Friday he does not rule out anything to support the economy, hit by rising prices and higher U.S. tariffs, with a cut in the country's consumption tax ...

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

Japan is selling off its emergency rice stash for the first time since 1995 because prices have doubled, and would you ...

Japan will sell more rice from its emergency stockpile through July in an attempt to stabilise soaring prices, the ...

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

The measures "can be called a national crisis and the government is ... said that Japan has a 700 percent tariff on US rice imports, a claim Japan's farm minister called "incomprehensible ...

Tariffs imposed on Japanese goods by US President Donald Trump's administration are a "national crisis," Prime Minister ... "extremely regrettable" and that Japan has "serious concerns" about ...

US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Japanese goods are a "national crisis", Prime Minister Shigeru ... measures be reviewed, Tokyo said. Japan's main Nikkei 225 index fell 2.75 percent on ...