TOKYO: Premium rice cookers are seeing brisk sales in Japan as consumers seek to prepare rice that is two or more years old and that came out of the government’s stockpile. Rice-polishing machines for ...

THE Sefula Water User Farmers (SWUFG), a community-based cooperative of rice growers in Sefula, have appealed to the Government to consider buying them a bigger rice polishing machine so that they can ...

TOKYO -- Iris Ohyama is expanding rice exports as part of an effort to boost sales in its food business to 15 billion yen ($147 million) in 2016, a 50% jump from 2015.

OSAKA -- Four cities in western Japan have stopped buying rice for school lunches from a local supplier for hygienic reasons, after pigeons were found in its rice-polishing plant. The Osaka Prefecture ...