If the BoJ maintains its rhetoric of remaining data-dependent and following the meeting-by-meeting approach for a policy move ...

Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed as traders assessed U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration that a trade deal with China ...

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 ...

Japan on Thursday began a review of its rice policy after soaring grain prices hit consumers, aiming to boost production and prevent supply shortages. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged to ensure ...

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 ...

By 2022, annual rice consumption in Japan had fallen to 51kg per person ... Rice production caps, which were introduced in 1971 to control supply and prices, have never been fully dismantled ...

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 ...