While consumers have suffered from shortages of rice on store shelves across the nation, exports of the Japanese staple food have been booming. Producers shipped a record amount of rice overseas ...
What’s one way to elevate Washoku cuisine? Pairing the fresh ocean catch perfectly with a Japanese rice beverage. Experience this at Sagetsu by Tetsuya, the city’s refined Japanese fine dining ...
In August 2024, rice disappeared from Japanese supermarket shelves, and prices rose, but the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries would not admit that there was a shortage. The searing ...
They are now embarking on a quest to crossbreed that genetic signature into Koshihikari, the Japanese rice that has overwhelmingly topped supermarket sales in the country for over 40 years.