For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

Negotiations have stalled ahead of next week’s deadline, with some suggesting Japan misjudged the depth of President Trump’s ...

Japan’s attempt to strike a deal with the US before Donald Trump’s deadline next week has hit an unlikely sticking point: ...

President Donald Trump threatened to impose a fresh tariff level on Japan, citing what he said was the country’s ...

Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a ...

Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff negotiations with the United States, its top ...

Donald Trump is pressuring Tokyo to buy Californian rice, as a national shortage exposes the country’s deep-rooted resistance ...

As the campaign period for the House of Councillors election has officially kicked off, recent issues surrounding rice -- ...

Rice prices in Japan have started to ease, falling below Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s target of below 4,000 yen for a five ...

It means that a tariff of 341 yen ($2.4) per kilogram of rice will remain in place for now, a rate that has been in place ...