Agriculture minister Taku Eto has come under fire for making insensitive remarks about rice at a time when prices for the staple grain have doubled over the past year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/19/japan/politics/farm-minister-eto-rice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #maff #takueto #rice
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List of companies and their products are at the end of the PDF
https://hbbf.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Arsenic-in-Rice-Report_May2025_R5_SECURED.pdf
Larger gaps between wholesalers' procurement and selling prices, which represent their costs and profits, may be a factor behind the high retail price of rice in Japan, a government survey has suggested. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/17/wholesalers-rice-retail-price/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #rice #agriculture
The agriculture ministry will introduce an auction quota for bidders ready to sell government stockpiled rice to retailers within a month of purchase to get such rice to store shelves more quickly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/16/japan/rice-supply-improvement-measures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #maff #agriculture #rice
The agriculture ministry has decided to ease a key bidding rule for government-stockpiled rice that requires a buyback within a year, in a bid to promote the circulation of such rice in the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/16/japan/rice-buyback-ease/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #maff #agriculture #rice
Japanese retailers are turning to California-grown rice, known as Calrose, as an alternative to Japanese rice, which remains pricey and hard to come by. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/14/japan/aeon-calrose-rice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #aeon #us #california #retailers
Japan's efforts to lower the price of rice through the release of its stockpile may finally be making some progress, albeit at a snail's pace. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/13/japan/average-rice-prices-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #agriculture #maff
Next month, Aeon stores in Japan will start selling California-grown Calrose rice. A 4kg bag will run for 2,680 yen ($18). Japanese-grown rice is currently running 4,214 yen ($28) a 5kg bag - a 172.8 yen/kg difference - due to last year's hot summer.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0a7994a9dfcdc4b1a292b3adc876179d34224b8c
A restaurant chef in Shiga Prefecture has developed a cheesecake using an ingredient from funazushi, one of Japan’s pungent traditional sushi types known as narezushi. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/13/japan/stinky-sushi-cheesecake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fish #shiga #food #rice #sushi
Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, or Zen-Noh, has shipped just 32% of the stockpiled rice that it bought from the government in March. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/10/japan/zen-noh-government-stockpiled-rice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #food #agriculture #inflation
The average price of rice sold at around 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through April 27 hit its highest level on record since March 2022 for the 17th straight week, the agriculture ministry has said https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/08/japan/japan-rice-price-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #inflation #maff
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said she will visit Japan and other countries soon for talks over the tariff policy of President Donald Trump's administration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/06/us-agriculture-secretary-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #usjapanrelations #tariffs #donaldtrump #agriculture #rice
Despite government efforts to lower the price of rice by tapping into the nation’s emergency stockpile, the cost of Japan’s staple grain remains at an all-time high. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/04/japan/rice-shortage-high-price/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #food
Of the 212,132 tons of Japanese government-stockpiled rice sold through auctions in March, only 3,018 tons had been distributed to retailers as of April 13. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/01/japan/japan-stockpiled-rice-retailers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #food #maaf #inflation
A total of 100,164 tons of the government-stockpiled rice was sold in a third auction at an average price of ¥20,302 per 60 kilograms, down ¥420 from the second auction, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/30/japan/rice-third-auction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #maff #auctions
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Japan is considering using increased rice imports from the U.S. as a negotiating tool in tariff talks with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to various media reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/economy/rice-minimum-access/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #rice #inflation #tariffs #donaldtrump #consumerspending #ryoseiakazawa #takueto #trade #usjapanrelations #us
Tariffs unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump could slash demand for Thai rice in its most valuable foreign market and create turmoil in an export industry worth billions of dollars. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/trump-tariffs-thailand-rice-sector/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #thailand #us #rice #trade #tariffs
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