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

Shigeru Ishiba likes the nitty gritty of policy and making military models, but his dream job as Japanese prime minister ...

Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to ...

Japan’s political landscape could be on the brink of major upheaval after exit polls showed Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ...

Japan’s ongoing rice shortage is bringing greater awareness to farmers’ issues, and greater scrutiny to the long-dominant ...

Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election with Prime ...

Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 percent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday, piling further pressure on Prime ...

While Japan’s rice crisis is especially severe, it’s also part of a broader trend: Food prices around the world have been ...

Japan's core inflation cooled to 3.3% in June, coming down from a 29-month high of 3.7% as food inflation showed signs of ...

Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2% in June year-on-year, official data showed today, piling further pressure on Prime Minister ...

The drastic measures taken by Prime Minister Ishiba to curb rice inflation have had little effect, fueling discontent among ...