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

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

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

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 ...

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

TOKYO — Exit polls show Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ‘s ruling coalition is likely to lose a majority in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election Sunday, worsening the ...

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

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and ...

Prices soar 99.2% in June year-on-year as support for Shigeru Ishiba sinks to a record low ahead of weekend polls.