{"id":294948,"date":"2026-02-17T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/294948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:12:14","slug":"rice-prices-remain-high-in-japan-even-after-stockpile-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/294948\/","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":294949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4386,114,184,453,85,932,46,115742,13959],"class_list":{"0":"post-294948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-maff","16":"tag-rice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}