Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...

The question of how Japanese people manage to maintain some of the lowest rates of heart disease in the world while consuming ...

The Japanese government said Friday ... has been delayed and stuck," he said. Rice prices had already began to change consumption patterns for some like Tokyo resident Eriko Kato.

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...