Since the summer of 2024, the price of rice in Japan has continued to rise. Up to now, the price of rice is double that of the same period last year. Officials from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said today that in order to calm the price of rice, the Japanese government plans to release another 200,000 tons of reserve rice. Also, according to Japanese media reports on the 9th, Japan's Hokkaido, Kagoshima, and Fukuoka prefectures recently began selling reserved rice sold by the government in limited quantities. Thousands of people lined up in front of supermarkets and rice stores in many places, and some consumers lined up all night to buy rice. At supermarkets in Kagoshima Prefecture, according to the purchase restriction policy, each household can only buy one bag of reserve rice.

Since the summer of 2024, the price of rice in Japan has continued to rise. Up to now, the price of rice is double that of the same period last year. Officials from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said today that in order to calm the price of rice, the Japanese government plans to release another 200,000 tons of reserve rice. Also, according to Japanese media reports on the 9th, Japan's Hokkaido, Kagoshima, and Fukuoka prefectures recently began selling reserved rice sold by the government in limited quantities. Thousands of people lined up in front of supermarkets and rice stores in many places, and some consumers lined up all night to buy rice. At supermarkets in Kagoshima Prefecture, according to the purchase restriction policy, each household can only buy one bag of reserve rice.