The average price of rice sold at supermarkets across Japan reached a record 4,444 yen ($28) per 5 kilograms. It surpassed previous highs seen before the government sold its rice reserved for emergency use in the hope of lowering retail prices of the staple crop.
You gotta be kidding me! It was a good harvest this year.
by SkyInJapan
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Well it’s still China bad foreigner bad and if we expel foreigners rice price would fall lol.
It is clear now that Takaichi administration actually want rice price to rise further, and Suzuki has absolutely zero intention to decrease rice prices.
Meh, doesn’t really bother me. I switched to 🍝
If they can’t eat rice, let them eat wheat /s
Rice is getting so expensive that people will eat less of it. And that means fewer cases of diabetes in Japan. Lower social security costs. Amazing!
Only on Reddit this appears to be an issue ?
I’m baffled by the new Agriculture Minister Suzuki. In his press conferences and interviews, he clearly opposes more production of rice. He refuses to use the expression “lowering prices” and keeps using the watered down expression of “stabilizing prices”.
More rice from the US then I guess.
Back to タイ米 it is then!
The only reason I haven’t switched to pasta is because my friends mom loves me and sends me a pack
She gets the good omiyage when I travel
The price is so bad that every meal have just descended to 50% rice and 50% noodles / pasta / udon. It really sucks seeing the prices everytime I walk back home.
Sorry if this is a silly question but wouldn’t growing more rice decrease the price of rice in Japan. Do they have heavy regulations on rice growth?
Does the government control the growth of rice or do corporations control it?
it had to be the year the grandparents stopped commercial production of rice in their field…
sigh
We did nothing and we’re all out of ideas.
Coddling the farmers for votes at the expense of the Japanese citizenry. Tell me it ain’t so, LDP!
I live in Gunma and had to buy rice yesterday. The cheapest option was the supermarkets brand, and it was 2500yen for 2kg bag. Wtf
Time to go on a low carb diet?
I found 5kg Niigata Koshihikari in a Japanese store in Düsseldorf Germany for €31, more or less ¥5070.
While in Japan, the same rice on Amazon was ¥6500.
The median household income in Japan in 2024 was around 4,000,000 yen.
A bag of 5kg of rice was around 4,000 yen.
So a household equals to 1,000 bags of the most important staple food in the nation.
It is an indecent anomaly.
Median income households in countries like Nepal, where rice is also a staple, equal 3,000 bags per year at the local price.
Even in the USA where rice is NOT the main staple food, a median income household equals over 3,000 bags of 5kg of rice per year at the local price.
Imagine your main source of food causing 3 times the financial pressure of any other country in the world.
It’s cheaper to ground up chicken and pretend it’s rice at this point.
I still remember some guys opposing Koizumi’s policies. Sadly.
Damn, Singapore imports rice and we get the Vietnamese grown Japanese rice for ~¥2,000 for 10kg….cant imaging how much the citizens are hurting now…this is nuts
high jinx of JA again. I’m surprised even after the election setback LDP has not reset their cozy relationship.
REPEAT AFTER ME. JAPAN IS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY NOW.
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