The price of Japan-grown rice is soaring due to high inflation, low farm yields and a growing tourism sector. Japan is facing ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has assembled a top-level task force to investigate the ongoing rice crisis. He is ...

RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi ...

Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped ...

Stablecoins were the headline story at Bitcoin 2025 this week in Las Vegas, not Bitcoin. The event saw crypto executives ...

IG Group has introduced crypto trading services targeting retail investors. The London-listed trading and financial offerings ...

Commentators on strategic defense have outlined China's strategy to deter or delay US intervention in a Taiwan contingency.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false ...

EDWARD FISHMAN is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of ...