The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food.

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

The following are the latest results of Marathon County Health Department inspections on licensed food establishments and other types of businesses, which the Wausau Daily Herald reports monthly.

It’s a sharp contrast to 1993, when the Thai rice the Japanese government imported during an acute shortage was largely shunned, leaving supermarkets with piles of unsold bags. Rare shortages ...

Droppings were also found in the dry storage area along the walls and on pallets where bags of rice and flour are kept ... The hot water tank was not large enough to supply the facility's demand.

There are large bags of rice and other staples. Ahmed also sees Sudbury as very diverse: “It’s as multicultural city as I have seen. I have got customers from at least 19 counties so far.” His list ...

A growing debate over the use of wake boats is creating divisions within Wisconsin’s lake communities as the summer boating ...

Data on Monday showed supermarket rice prices rising again in the week through May 11, to 4,268 yen ($29.73) for a 5 kg bag, after falling for the first time in 18 weeks. The high prices have ...

Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where ...

“The price of Indian imported rice coming through Benin has dropped substantially, from N58,000 per 50 kg bag on April 23 to just N54,000 per 50 kg bag on May 13. Concurrently, local rice prices ...