The Japanese government held a rare auction this week to make up for a rice shortage that an official called “truly ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government plans to increase the country's rice exports by nearly eight ... the number of farmers managing fields of 15 hectares or larger and reduce ...

Japanese rice fish – also known as medaka (Oryzias latipes) – are a small, unassuming species that live wild in the marshlands and rice fields of Japan. They are externally fertilizing fish ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food have been booming. Producers shipped a record amount of rice overseas ...