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The Japanese government will release additional stockpiled rice every month until the end of July to stabilize soaring prices, farm minister Taku Eto said Wednesday. The announcement comes as price ...

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Japan will sell more rice from its emergency stockpile through July in an attempt to stabilise soaring prices, the agricultural minister said Wednesday. After rice prices nearly doubled year-on-year, ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government will release additional stockpiled rice every month until the end of July to stabilize soaring prices, farm minister Taku Eto said Wednesday.

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years ... will still be onigiri 2,000 years down the road. I have to train people who will carry on the tradition,’” she said.