The rice paddy ... over their rice fields, their overall revenue, including income from selling solar-generated electricity, can improve more than fivefold, a recent Japanese study has shown.

"Rice is everything" in Japan, according to Firstpost, but consumers are facing a crisis: the country is running out of supplies and the price is rocketing. Extreme shortages throughout the ...

TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japan's core inflation probably accelerated in March from the previous month as rice prices rose, a Reuters poll showed, a sign of persistent cost pressure that is ...

Japan is selling off its emergency rice stash for the first time since 1995 because prices have doubled, and would you ...

Japan and the U.S. clinched the final two of the eight spots in September's Billie Jean King Cup Finals with 2-1 wins over Canada and Slovakia in the final group-stages matches of the Qualifiers on ...

Japan's rice prices rose to a record average of 4,214 yen ($29) per 5 kilograms, more than double the level a year earlier, the government said Monday, suggesting that recent stockpile releases have ...

While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food have been booming. Producers shipped a record amount of rice overseas ...

Despite sounding similar, the Japanese words "cha" (tea) and "chāhan" (fried rice) are etymologically unconnected. What if we were to combine them though? Frying rice is a way to add flavor and ...

As the quality of rice across Japan has been devastated by the intense heat of recent summers, the agricultural industry is increasingly turning toward heat-resistant rice varieties. When rice is ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like ...