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Warming Seas Worsen Japan's Price Shock With ¥18,000 Urchin Rice Bowls

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan faces its hottest summer in history, a sharp decline in the catch of sea urchin in the country's north has made the spiny delicacy further out of reach for many consumers already strained by high food costs.
On Hokkaido's Rishiri Island, restaurants offer a rice bowl with 100 ...

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Japan Asks South Korea To Lift Ban On Japanese Seafood Imports

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's farm minister on Monday urged the South Korean foreign minister to scrap restrictions on Japanese seafood imports imposed after the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, held talks with S...

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Indonesia Exports 11 Tons of Black Tiger Prawns to Japan

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TEMPO
 
A total of 11 tons of frozen black tiger prawns (Penaeus monodon) worth Rp2 billion has been certified by the Indonesian Quarantine Agency (Barantin), through the South Sumatra Animal, Fish, and Plant Quarantine Office, for export to Japan.
The head of the South Sumatra Quarantine, Sri En...

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Japan's 2024 Rice Demand Tops Estimate; Outstrips Supply Again

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Demand for rice in Japan in the year through June was 7.11 million tons, 380,000 tons more than initial government projections made last year, the farm ministry said Wednesday.
With 6.79 million tons of rice produced in 2024, it marks the third consecutive year that demand has excee...

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Japan to Scrap Rice Crop Yield Index

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NIPPON
 
The Japanese agriculture ministry on Monday announced the abolition of the rice crop yield index, effective with this year's harvest.
The step comes as rice farmers have complained that the country's current statistics do not match their firsthand experience of growing the staple. Some h...

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Japan to Move Up Auctions for Imported Rice

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NIPPON
 
The Japanese government will hold the first round of annual auctions earlier than usual for rice imported under a minimum market access agreement as part of efforts to stabilize rice prices, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Thursday.
This year’s first auction for rice as staple...

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Japan Breaks With Policy Of Not Controlling Rice Prices

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ASIA NEWS NETWORK
 
With the average price of rice now doubled from the same period last year — reaching more than ¥4,000 for 5 kilograms at supermarkets — much attention is being paid to whether the ministry’s new approach will be effective.
The agriculture ministry’s decision to sell state-held...

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H2O Retailing to Sell Japan Govt-Stockpiled Rice

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NIPPON
 
H2O Retailing Corp. has applied to sell 2,000 tons of rice to be released from the Japanese government's stockpile under discretionary contracts, company officials said.
Kansai Food Market Ltd., a subsidiary of H2O Retailing, will sell the rice at its group supermarkets such as Hankyu Oa...

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Supermarkets Offering Foreign-Grown Rice As Japan Faces Record Prices

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's supermarket operators have been strengthening sales of cheaper, foreign-grown rice, offering another choice to consumers hit by rising prices and concerns about shortages of the country's staple food.
Aeon Co. will start selling California-sourced rice on June 6 at its stores...

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Japan's Oldest Sake Brand Determined To Keep Taste Unchanged

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Although Japan's sake industry faces a crisis with falling domestic consumption, the country's oldest brand, Kenbishi, is unbending in its commitment to the old ways, seeing it as the best guarantor of quality.
In the staff dining room at the brewing facility of Kenbishi Sake Brewin...

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