If the entire population were to try to hold two weeks’ worth of “inventory,” simple calculations indicate a demand of about ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 ...

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced details of the planned release of government-stored ...

TOKYO — Japan will sell 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency stockpiles as households are paying record prices for the ...

If speculative movements are driving up rice prices, government intervention may become necessary. However, if the response ...

There was panic buying after the government warned in August of a potentially devastating earthquake in the Nankai Trough off the coast of southern Japan. The stockpiling system was introduced in ...

Additional pressure came in August as the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first-ever advisory warning of an increased risk of a major earthquake along the Nankai Trough, prompting consumers ...

Japan's internal affairs ministry on Wednesday presented a new plan to send officials from some prefectures to help other areas hit hard by a possible massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough off ...

However, ever since last summer's "rice crisis of the Reiwa era," caused by multiple non-harvest-related factors such as panic-buying due to a Nankai Trough earthquake advisory that overlapped the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar index was lower on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump paused new tariffs on Mexico for one month, after the country agreed to reinforce its northern border ...

The Aussie slid 1.9 per cent to US$0.6091 breaking the January trough of US$0.6129. That took it to depths not seen since 2020 in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when it briefly neared ...