{"id":302227,"date":"2026-02-17T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:38:29","slug":"rice-prices-remain-high-in-japan-even-after-stockpile-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302227\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice prices remain high in Japan even after stockpile releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail rice prices in Japan are still above \u00a54,000 per 5 kilograms on average, almost double the level before supply shortages hit consumers, even after the government&#8217;s releases of stockpiled rice to keep prices low.<\/p>\n<p>In February last year, the agriculture ministry announced plans to release 210,000 tons of stockpiled rice. The decision came as a reversal of its policy because the ministry had expected that the volume of 2024 rice would be enough to cover demand.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s staple food law stipulates that releases of government-stockpiled rice be used to cover &#8220;supply shortages due to falling production.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail rice prices in Japan are still above \u00a54,000 per 5 kilograms on average, almost double the level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3810,72,113,426,61,1095,60,111201,16730],"class_list":["post-302227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-maff","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}