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

The Japanese government plans to increase the country's rice exports by nearly eight-fold to 350,000 tons, worth 92.2 billion ...

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 ...

The private imports came on top of the around 770,000 tons of rice imported by the Japanese government, mainly from the United States, China and Thailand, under the minimum access commitment set by ...

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 ...

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...