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

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

Donald Trump is pressuring Tokyo to buy Californian rice, as a national shortage exposes the country’s deep-rooted resistance ...

It means that a tariff of 341 yen ($2.4) per kilogram of rice will remain in place for now, a rate that has been in place ...

Japan’s attempt to strike a deal with the US before Donald Trump’s deadline next week has hit an unlikely sticking point: ...

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

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims ...

For Japanese, rice is more than just a staple food. Cultivated in the country for more than 2,000 years, rice is considered ...

Mr Trump’s social media post on Monday came as Tokyo raced to persuade Washington to drop a 25 per cent tariff on cars and 24 ...

Prime minister stresses that Japan is importing US rice from California, counters Trump assertion that Japan ‘won’t take our ...