{"id":373553,"date":"2025-12-28T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:22:07","slug":"japans-rice-policy-at-crossroads-amid-output-shift-and-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373553\/","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":373554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2342,28,101,182769,182770,17641],"class_list":["post-373553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-maff","tag-norikazu-suzuki","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}