By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

Negotiations have stalled ahead of next week’s deadline, with some suggesting Japan misjudged the depth of President Trump’s ...

Japan’s attempt to strike a deal with the US before Donald Trump’s deadline next week has hit an unlikely sticking point: ...

Japan will not sacrifice the agricultural sector as part of its tariff talks with the United States, its top negotiator said ...

Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a ...

Donald Trump is pressuring Tokyo to buy Californian rice, as a national shortage exposes the country’s deep-rooted resistance ...

Rice prices in Japan have started to ease, falling below Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s target of below 4,000 yen for a five ...

As the campaign period for the House of Councillors election has officially kicked off, recent issues surrounding rice -- ...

It means that a tariff of 341 yen ($2.4) per kilogram of rice will remain in place for now, a rate that has been in place ...

A survey shows Japan's growers and wholesalers expect rice prices to drop over the next three months as government stockpiles ...