Homegrown veg, cheap substitutes: Japanese get creative to fight soaring food prices
Japanese homemaker Kirina Mochizuki has always considered "okonomiyaki" savoury pancakes the ultimate comfort food: simple, ...
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Japan to ease rules on rice reserve releases as prices surge
The Japanese government will ease its policy on releasing stockpiled rice as a step to counter rising prices, altering the ...
Japan to loosen rules on rice reserves as prices soar
Japan is set to loosen the rules controlling the country’s tightly guarded rice reserve for the first time as domestic prices ...
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Japan to require farmer action if key food supplies drop by 20%
Japan is set to implement a policy enabling the government to instruct farmers to submit production increase plans if domestic supplies of rice and other key items drop by 20 percent or more and cause ...
Japan Plans to Sell Rice from Emergency Stockpiles to Cut Prices
Japan plans to release some of its rice stockpiles reserved for emergency use in response to record domestic prices for the ...
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Brazil in talks for beef shipments to Japan in threat to U.S.
The world’s top beef exporter Brazil is in advanced talks to begin shipments to Japan, according to a major industry group, in a move that may hurt U.S. sales to the Asian nation.   Brazil has ...
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Farm-welfare links for disabled employment expand in Japan
Such partnership initiatives, launched by agricultural corporations and employment facilities, reached about 7,100 by fiscal ...
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Japanese dairy farm operator targeting India
Akiba Bokujo Holdings has partnered with an Indian IT startup to procure feed, raise dairy cows and produce products.