{"id":404795,"date":"2026-01-10T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404795\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:24:09","slug":"japans-average-rice-price-hit-new-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404795\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s average rice price hit new record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s average rice price hit a new record high since statistics began in March 2022, following a small decline, according to agriculture ministry data.<\/p>\n<p>In the week ended last Sunday, the average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan rose by \u00a593 from the previous week to \u00a54,416 per 5 kilograms, the data released by the ministry Friday showed.<\/p>\n<p>The average price fell by \u00a514 to \u00a54,323 in the week ended Dec. 28 last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest reporting week, the price of &#8220;brand rice,&#8221; primarily newly harvested rice, grew by \u00a521 to \u00a54,516. Brand rice accounted for 74% of total rice sales, up 2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The price of relatively cheap blended rice climbed by \u00a5261, with the share of blended rice falling to 26%.<\/p>\n<p>A separate survey of about 1,200 supermarkets showed that the average rice price went up \u00a5291 to \u00a54,176.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s average rice price hit a new record high since statistics began in March 2022, following a small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,1295,5465,4242],"class_list":{"0":"post-404795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-food","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-rice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}