Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm base.

HAENAM, South Korea / TOKYO: Japan is grappling with rice shortages and price hikes, forcing it to ramp up imports. Just ...

Japan’s ruling party is betting on lower rice prices winning urban votes at the risk of alienating their traditional farm base.

Trump threatened to impose a tariff of “30 percent or 35 percent” on Japan if a trade deal is not reached by the time the reciprocal tariff pause is lifted on July 9. A basic 10 percent tariff on ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday's upper house election, and a loss could worsen political instability at a time of daunting challenges, such as ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a loss could worsen political instability at a time of daunting challenges, such ...

A simmering crisis over staple rice has suddenly boiled over in Japan. Since 2023, a punishing heatwave slashed harvests to their lowest in over a decade. As of June 2025, a 5-kilogram bag of ...

TOKYO -- Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a loss could worsen political instability at a time of daunting challenges, ...