Japan's Rice Policy at Crossroads amid Output Shift
Tomas Kauer - News Writer and Moderator 
Tokyo, Dec. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan's rice policy is at a crossroads as prices of the country's staple food stay around record highs, squeezing households. "We'll change course and boost production," then Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said in August 2025, declaring a change in the government's rice policy, under which production adjustment had been maintained. But this was quickly reverse...
