Japan to release emergency rice stocks as prices soar
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The price of one 5 kilogram bag of rice has risen 82 per cent since 2024, according to a recent survey by the Japanese government. Concerns over the rise of a staple food amid a flagging economy have prompted the government to take unprecedented measures and release 210,000 tonnes of rice from its one million tonnes of emergency stockpiles.
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43 Comments
I’m eating SUMO rice 😊during covid lockdown time
The import tariff on white rice is 778% 🙂
If they want, they could make rice way cheaper.
Its so typical for a right-nationalist government 😅
The same is true in the UK.
I work in a shop, and our mid-size 10kg sack of basmati has increased from £9.99 to £16.99. That's a 70% increase in price.
I usually go for Trophy branded basmati, which is even more. But it is an exceptional quality rice.
Go on lchf diet
Nothing unhealthier than rice
Simply don’t eat rice
egg prices soaring in the USA, rice prices soaring in Asia….something isn't right these days….
lol.
the reason your price increase because now many tourist come to japan
and they are eating your food.
your country already lose population, ofcourse the price gonna down.
So close to Asia and out of rice? Well cut back on rice and eat more noodle, bread, potatoes and sweet potatoes? Why every meal have to have rice????????
The world is not at its best right now. But remember. We must all remain resilient and keep going. I promise that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel
TIL countries have rice reserves.
Are the Chinese buying up all the rice? Or was the rice harvest in 2024 dismal?
They could just import cheaper vietnamese rice
Since japan will definitely dissolve i wonder how the regions will be in the future.
Kok efektif ya, ga kayak Konoha 😂
They want us eating crickets
After reading other comments on rice shortage and high prices in other countries, I think is an global problem.
I live in Australia and rice is extremely cheap and hasn't changed price in years
time to move to japan and become a rice farmer 🌾
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There aren’t that many tourists in Japan that they would eat up a significant amount of rice. They are very quick to blame foreigners.
And Trump is threatening tariffs when we should all be working together to feed each other.
Did chinese hated Jpn
なんかコメント欄で怒ってる外国人いるけど、あくまでオーバーツーリズムが米価格の上昇の原因の“１つ”だと言ってるだけで、全部君たちのせいと言ってるわけじゃないんだよなあ
日本人が一番怒ってるのは中国人の転売
Why do they all have bad teeth?
The interesting thing is that they seem to blame tourists for the increased consumption… But it is not like Western tourist consume nearly as much rice as locals (simply because they are more used to cereals and aside from a few amounts for the obligatory sushi and onigiri… they do not really appreciate it). I fear it is the increasing number of Chinese tourists who are more used to rice who demand it in higher quantities.
Japanese have massive agricultural elitism. They could import cheap rice from other countries but they look down on pretty much every other country's agriculture
Japan has like a 500% tariff on imports, thats the problem
This is all thanks to the greed of JA. The rice “shortage” is completely manufactured to their line pockets with more yen. If you think there’s a rice shortage here, I encourage you to drive around the Japanese country side and see how much rice there is growing.
This video just blaming the heat.. lol. The ruling political party in Japan, the LDP uses rice to rig elections. It’s because the electoral system in Japan favors rural votes. So, the LDP mucks around to secure those high value votes. They put ultra high tariffs on foreign rice imports, buy rice at inflated prices, or even pay farmers NOT to grow rice, all to artificially prop up Japanese farmers and get their votes. So yes, maybe a heat wave is causing problems, but a lot of Japans rice problems are self inflicted wounds created by gvmt bureaucracy, from a party that has only been out of power once since the end of WW2.
Japan is a country with a low food self-sufficiency rate. It is a very bad thing that we have to rely on imports even for our staple food, rice, and that the domestic rice industry is in decline.
'domestic grown'. Japan could import cheaper rice from abroad, but no. They stubbornly refuse to let more affordable imports on the market.
Inflation is affecting most of the world.
China's real estate market has been a key engine of growth, but it’s become dangerously overleveraged. Local governments and banks have piled up massive, often off-the-books debt—much of it tied to unfinished and unsold housing projects—which could trigger a financial domino effect if it unravels. This structural weakness threatens overall economic stability, yet the CCP routinely downplays or even denies the full extent of these risks to maintain an image of controlled, sustainable growth.
Big rip big rip.
Rice is a blessing
This comment section makes me advocate that Economics should be compulsory in education. Its peak brain rot for Economics students
The Japanese government shouldn't release emergency rice to control price inflation. They should get their citizens to switch their diet to Udon, Soba, Ramen, etc. What if Japan faces a real emergency from natural disasters and they used up their emergency rice?
what is going on in the world that staple foods everywhere are soaring in price???
Chinese bought 21 tons of the rice stocks in Japan and kept it in the warehouse to raise the price of the rice in the market.
Rice isn’t something you can store forever. In addition, Japan can always import rice from overseas. End problem.
In viet nam rice 🌾 only $0.25 a kg and even no bodies want to buy 😢
Same here Indiana, USA
If they're already bring out emergencies, then it's time to be panic
That’s crazy, in England rice is about 52p($0.67)(100¥)/kg and I was complaining because that went up from 50p last year