The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates steady next week and consider slowing reductions in its bond purchases from next fiscal year, a move that would signal its preference to move ...

The BOJ ended its yield curve control and began tapering its huge bond buying last year as part of its effort to wean the ...

To cope with shortfalls this year, the government has released rice reserves. But the grain has been slow to reach ...

The Japanese government has started releasing low-cost rice from its emergency stockpiles as market prices soar to record ...

Rice moves through a multi-layered supply chain in Japan before reaching consumers, a structure that drives up costs and complicates market adjustments of the staple food, with retail prices currently ...

This small amount is all it takes to disrupt distribution and prices. The Japan Agricultural ... of the Food Control Act, was designed to reduce government involvement in rice pricing.

bypassing auctions that have prevented government control over prices. According to government data, the average price of rice sold at Japanese supermarkets reached a record 4,268 yen ($30 ...

He added that the reserve rice is expected to reach store ... bypassing auctions that have prevented government control over prices. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is likely to commence ...

TOKYO - Japanese inflation data released on May 23 showed that rice prices last month were a whopping ... of rice production in the name of market control, and they haven’t focused on how ...

Japan's rice supply chain is complicated ... plans to switch to voluntary government contracts for rice to better control prices and to lift a cap on the next sale. One problem may be a lack ...

Japan’s rice supply chain is complicated ... to switch to voluntary government contracts for rice to better control prices and to lift a cap on the next sale. One problem may be a lack of ...