Japan is releasing rice from its national emergency stockpile for the first time to combat shortages. High temperatures reducing rice production and stockpiling are thought to be behind the problem.

Successful bidders will be required to pick up the rice by the end of April. Rice prices in Japan have been increasing even after extreme shortages at retailers last summer were resolved.

The agriculture ministry said Friday that it has selected successful bidders for 141,796 tons of government-stockpiled rice in the initial round of an auction aimed at curbing recent increases in ...

(Mainichi/Wataru Okubo) WASHINGTON (Mainichi) -- Soaring rice prices in Japan triggered by the "rice upheaval" last summer have surprised Japanese expatriates in the United States, as it remains ...

Rice is in short supply at supermarkets in Japan. During late August, an NHK crew visited a store in Tokyo that usually sells about 10 varieties. But all it had in stock were 16 bags of a single ...

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2. Prepare the green peas, rub with salt and parboil for 1 to 2 minutes. Cooling the peas in a thin stream of running water makes them look appetizing and not wrinkled. 3. Cook the rice ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Rice prices in Japan have remained high despite hopes that they would normalize after the government announced plans two weeks ago that it would release its stockpiles to ...