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Inflation in Japan slowed to 2.7 percent in August due partly to government energy subsidies, official data showed Friday, with the cost of rice easing following a huge price spike. Inflation ...

Japan will handle US demands to buy more American rice within the confines of its existing overall cap on duty-free imports and has no plans to lower its tariffs on farm products, according to Tokyo’s ...

U.S.–Japan trade talks stalled after the Trump administration demanded that Japan buy more American rice. Japan’s top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, canceled a planned U.S. trip due to the revised ...

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The price of table rice in Japan has skyrocketed. As of June 2025, the average wholesale price had reached 27,102 yen per 60 kilograms. That’s 452 yen per kilogram —or roughly $3.12 at the current ...