The average retail price of the staple grain hit a new record high for the first time in three weeks, according to ...

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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 2.8% in November from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, exceeding the central bank's 2% target and keeping alive ...

KISARAZU, Japan (Reuters) -At a farmer's market not far from Tokyo, more than 100 shoppers queued for a chance to get a kilo or so of Japanese rice for 500 yen ($3.32) by carefully heaping as much of ...

According to the most recent report on consumer prices, published at the Statistics Bureau of Japan, consumer prices rose 3.4 percent year-over-year in May. Japan’s CPI inflation has surged since ...

It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are ...

In response to soaring supermarket rice prices, the Japanese government released 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency reserves in February 2025, despite an abundance of rice production in the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Core inflation in Japan's capital accelerated in October and stayed above the central bank's 2% target, data showed on Friday, keeping alive market expectations for a near-term ...

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TOKYO >> The European Union could imperil Japan’s imported supply of affordably priced eel with a proposal to make all 19 eel species subject to trade regulations under the Convention on International ...

Stocks have become so expensive that the median minimum amount that Japanese investors need to buy shares is 10 times higher ...