KAMIMOMI, Japan (AP) — In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan's western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than ...
teamLab is set to unveil a new permanent exhibition in Izura, a picturesque coastal spot in Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture. Entitled teamLab: Hidden Traces of Rice Terraces, the immersive exhibition will ...
The recent tumultuous rice price situation in Japan has been a rollercoaster ride. Beginning with a poor harvest in 2023 and a minor rice shortage in the late summer of 2024, many began to think Japan ...
In response to soaring supermarket rice prices, the Japanese government released 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency reserves in February 2025, despite an abundance of rice production in the ...