Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry ...

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...

The average wholesale price of rice rose to ¥24,655 ($159) per 60 kilogram bag as of December, according to government data.

But all it had in stock were 16 bags of a single type, with a purchase limit of one bag per customer. As of the end of July, rice stocks were down 32 percent from the same month of last year.

tossing a bag of these (and some other Trader Joe's snacks) in your cart isn't the worst idea. Trader Joe's Sugared Rice Crackers Are Very Similar To Japanese Senbei After looking around the snack ...

A man arranges sacks of rice at a storage facility in Marikina City ... This deal excludes specialty rice varieties such as glutinous rice, Japanese, and black rice.