TOKYO (AP) — Tsukudani, a sweet, Japanese side dish often served with hot rice, originated in the samurai era in a tiny ...

Donald Trump's insistence that "spoiled" Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's problems ...

A father and son in Tokyo are continuing the centuries-old tradition of making tsukudani, a preserved Japanese food.

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has complained that Japan was not buying American rice, putting pressure on Tokyo as it struggles ...

Donald Trump’s insistence that “spoiled” Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s problems ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose higher tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States over what he claims is the country’s unwillingness to buy American-grown rice.

In the book “Rice As Self,” anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney attempted to connect Japan’s preference for the world’s most popular grain to the Japanese sense of self-identity.

Trump’s anger at Japan’s rice policies is not new, but his timing is deliberate. Trade talks are faltering ahead of the July 9 expiration of a 90-day tariff pause.

In Japan, newly harvested rice is marketed as "shinmai", literally new rice, and is perceived to taste better. There is even a legal requirement that only rice packaged by December 31 of that year ...

Data from Japan's agriculture ministry revealed that the average price of a five-kg bag of rice had fallen to 3,920 yen ($27.03) for the week ending June 15, which marked the first time that rice ...