{"id":825843,"date":"2026-08-25T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825843\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:56:09","slug":"retailers-restaurants-cut-prices-of-rice-based-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825843\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailers, restaurants cut prices of rice-based items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convenience stores and restaurant chains in Japan are cutting prices of rice-based products to reflect a decline in costs of the grain and to attract customers.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson stores will lower prices of 20 kinds of onigiri rice balls by about 10 yen, or 6 cents, from September 29. For example, the price of a tuna-mayonnaise rice ball will drop to 171 yen from 181 yen.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-Eleven Japan and FamilyMart also say they will cut prices of the popular rice balls.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant chain Kura Sushi is following suit with lower prices for its sushi plates, saying the move is to attract more families.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it will cut its lowest-priced sushi to 110 yen from 115 yen from September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Convenience stores and restaurant chains in Japan are cutting prices of rice-based products to reflect a decline in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3995,89749,28,101,3471,89751,3,89750,89754,89755,89756,89753,21838,89752,89757,172,4477],"class_list":["post-825843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825843","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=825843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}