Rice prices in Japan have continued to surge since last summer's "rice crisis of the Reiwa era." Despite the government's ...

Leading convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has begun installing collection boxes in Saitama city as part of a drive to deliver surplus food to children’s cafeterias and other facilities.

Almost 3,500 teachers and students at more than a dozen public schools in Yashio city, Saitama Prefecture, have become sick with diarrhea and stomach pains in a mass food poisoning outbreak. The ...