By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a ...

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President Donald Trump has been ramping up his tariff threats against Japan, accusing the country of refusing to buy U.S.

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