{"id":363279,"date":"2026-04-04T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:06:17","slug":"rice-prices-in-japan-drop-for-seventh-straight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363279\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice prices in Japan drop for seventh straight week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of rice sold from March 23 through Sunday in Japan averaged \u00a53,935 per 5 kilograms, down \u00a543 from the previous week, marking a seventh straight weekly decline, the agriculture ministry said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The average price is based on sales at about 1,000 supermarkets nationwide. The figure dipped below year-before levels, when prices climbed into the \u00a54,000 range and government stockpiles began to be released.<\/p>\n<p>By category, the average price of branded rice dropped \u00a583 to \u00a54,005 per 5 kg, while that of blended rice rose \u00a527 to \u00a53,703, marking its first increase in seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The share of branded rice in total sales climbed 4 percentage points to 77%.<\/p>\n<p>Private-sector rice inventories are projected at 2.21 million to 2.34 million tons by the end of June, exceeding the appropriate range of 1.8 million to 2 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>As supply-demand conditions ease, downward price pressure is emerging in interdealer rice transactions as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prices of rice sold from March 23 through Sunday in Japan averaged \u00a53,935 per 5 kilograms, down \u00a543&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,564,1943,111,139,69,16455],"class_list":{"0":"post-363279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-inflation","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-rice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363279","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=363279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}