{"id":204517,"date":"2025-12-28T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204517\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:08:07","slug":"japans-rice-policy-at-crossroads-amid-output-shift-and-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204517\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s rice policy at crossroads amid output shift and high prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s rice policy is at a crossroads as prices of the country&#8217;s staple food stay around record highs, squeezing households.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll change course and boost production,&#8221; then-Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said in August 2025, declaring a change in the government&#8217;s rice policy, under which production adjustment had been maintained.<\/p>\n<p>But this was quickly reversed by his successor, Sanae Takaichi, who took office as prime minister in October. Her policy is to keep production in line with demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s rice policy is at a crossroads as prices of the country&#8217;s staple food stay around record highs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6689,138,219,124932,111,139,124933,69,16455],"class_list":{"0":"post-204517","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-maff","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-norikazu-suzuki","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-rice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}