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Posted on 07/17/2025 7:09:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 per cent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday (Jul 18), piling further pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections this weekend.
The price of the grain already rocketed 101 per cent year-on-year in May, having jumped 98.4 per cent in April and more than 92.5 per cent in March.
Overall, Japan's core inflation rate slowed to 3.3 per cent in June from 3.7 per cent in May, the data from the internal affairs ministry showed.
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Very dangerous ground when a nation begins importing food staples.
Gee...why are there so many Chinesium solar “farms” covering prime American cropland?
“Gee...why are there so many Chinesium solar “farms” covering prime American cropland?”
Not sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Japan has a good chunk of their farmland now producing ‘sustainable’ power.
What is it about American rice that the Japanese don’t like?
They only allow a limited amount of imported rice without tariff. Beyond that the rate is around 700%. We grow plenty here in CA we could export if they’d wise the hell up
Rice or wic4the - me bad.
“They have been importing a lot of Korean rice. “
They import more from Italy than Korea.
“What is it about American rice that the Japanese don’t like?”
The US makes up about 1/2 of their rice imports.
I bought 20 lbs of Basmati 10 years ago...still have 5 lbs left. I make a big pot and freeze flat pkgs..
The problem is partly the lack of rice farmers in Japan, but I suspect it is more the government inability to subsidize farmers as they did for decades after the war--it was a money laundering scheme to fund the LDP, the main Japanese party, government gives the farmers money to grow rice, farming orgs give campaign contributions to the LDP. If that sounds suspiciously like some other government schemes in the recent news, just remember, there is nothing new under the sun.
American rice is fluffy, and doesn’t stick together well, making it difficult to eat with chopsticks.
They prefer a sticky rice where the grains cling together.
That used to be the issue but since then US farmers are growing a wider variety of rice to suit all tastes.
“The problem is partly the lack of rice farmers in Japan...”
Yes. When the wife and I were there last December, we took a long trip to the western part of Honshu, traveling on several smaller rail lines. We were surprised at the number of abandoned fields. Most of them were smaller and in inconvenient places, but they add up to a lot of acreage taken out of production.
Wonder how much of the price increase is due to continuing arable land contamination issues after the 2011 tsunami and the resulting meltdowns at Fukushima...
Lack of farmers...
And maybe problems with the land?
This is interesting. From earlier this month...
It appears Japan levies a 700% tariff on US rice, after a quota is exceeded, according to post #6. Is this remotely correct?
Why is Japan having so little rice made at home?
It’s also sweeter. There are gourmet varieties of hoshihikari from Niigata that win awards..
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