For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

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President Donald Trump threatened to impose a fresh tariff level on Japan, citing what he said was the country’s ...

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The area allocated to monsoon-sown rice crops has surged 47% from a year earlier to 3.5 million hectares (8.7 million acres) ...