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Japan’s rice woes are far from over
This is a moment of reckoning, demanding a re-evaluation of long-held beliefs about food security.
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Japan on May 30 announced ambitious plans to expand rice exports nearly eightfold to 353,000 tonnes in 2030.
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Rice is so central to the Japanese identity that the word gohan means both “cooked rice” and “meal”.
Yet with prices skyrocketing at home, some Japanese citizens travelling abroad are buying back bags of short-grain japonica.
