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Rice shortages caused by a supply chain snarl-up have fuelled frustration over inflation

Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (R) has pledged to cut rice prices quicker

Shortages of the grain caused by a supply chain snarl-up have seen prices almost double in a year

Ducklings are raised in a greenhouse before their release into rice paddies to eat bugs as an organic solution, at one of the farms of "Farm F…

A row over the cost of rice in Japan is threatening to deal the government a blow at the ballot box

Farmers use a transplanter to plant rice seedlings at a farm in the town of Sanjo, Niigata prefecture

Farmers use a transplanter to plant rice seedlings at a farm in the town of Sanjo, Niigata prefecture in northern Japan

Mirabai Khindkar said the only thing her land grew was debt, after crops failed in drought and her husband killed himself