Emperor Naruhito takes part in rice planting ceremony at Imperial Palace in Tokyo
Emperor Naruhito on Monday conducted the first rice planting at the Imperial Palace since he assumed the throne on May 1. Rice farming at the palace in Tokyo was initiated by Emperor Hirohito — posthumously known as Emperor Showa — who was the grandfather of ...
Turtle-shell divination conducted at Imperial Palace in Tokyo ahead of key succession rite
The ceremony selects Tochigi and Kyoto prefectures to provide the rice for the upcoming Daijosai offering ceremony in mid-November.
Eating more rice could help fight obesity, study led by Japan researcher suggests
The study was presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Glasgow.
Japan's Kameda Seika to produce popular Kaki No Tane rice crackers in India
Snack company Kameda Seika Co. will produce its mainstay crispy rice cracker in India starting in June following a better than expected trial sales performance in the world's second-most populous nation. The investment amount and production capacity for a plant in Haryana state adjacent to ...
Japan Times 1969: Exploding balloons injure eight people
By the violent wind Wednesday evening, two large, two-storied buildings at the Tokyo Medical College at Higashi-Okubo that were being erected, and one of them almost completed, were blown down and destroyed. In the suburbs, several small houses tumbled down.
U.S. wins WTO ruling on Chinese grain price support in ruling also seen affecting India
The United States won a World Trade Organization ruling on China's price support for grains, successfully challenging a calculation methodology that is also used by India. A WTO adjudication panel agreed on Thursday with the U.S. complaint that China had paid farmers too much for ...
U.S. farmers fear Trump's China focus will imperil $14 billion in Japan trade
Bill Flory sends about a quarter of the wheat he grows in Idaho to Japan, a country so key to the fourth-generation farmer that he's visited there three times in five years. Now he's worried. While Canada, Australia and the European Union have all recently ...
Japan farming co-op federation to resume Niigata rice exports to China this month
The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (JA Zen-Noh) will resume sales of rice produced in Niigata Prefecture to China later this month after a break of nearly eight years. Niigata rice exports were suspended following the triple core meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company ...
The city of Hakui in Ishikawa Prefecture is using organic rice, which is grown without pesticides or fertilizers, to compete in a growing global market. With crop prices expected to drop after the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership goes into effect at the ...
Japanese firm launches ready-to-eat 'emergency rice' in the Philippines
A Japanese ready-to-eat rice-maker held an event Tuesday in the Philippines to formally introduce the market to its Rice-to-Go product, intended mainly for use in emergency and disaster situations. Kiyosada Egawa, chairman of Biotech Japan Corp., said at the product unveiling event that he "would ...
Japanese rice farmers now see overseas market as potential savior
Rice farmers are seizing on their chance to boost sales for their high-quality product amid a fall in domestic demand and expected liberalization of trade rules. Kazuya Terasawa, 66, plans to export about 10 percent of this year's output from his paddies in Niigata. The ...
Amid falling consumption, Japan's aging rice farmers face an uncertain future
Once deemed so important it served as a form of currency, Japanese rice has fallen out of favor with younger, westernized consumers, a shift that has left aging farmers struggling for survival. Rice consumption has nearly halved over the past 50 years. As the older ...
