Sanae Takaichi came to power promising to tame inflation. But she’s boosting the crop’s cost to appease a subsidy-fuelled ...

The price of rice in stores edged up 1.1 percent from the previous week, causing further pain for a nation dependent on the staple. The average retail price nationwide posted its first rise in 10 ...

The average price per 5 kilograms of rice sold at some 1,000 supermarkets in Japan in the week to Sept. 7 topped ¥4,000 for the first time since early June, the agriculture ministry has said. The ...