{"id":69485,"date":"2025-02-14T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/14\/japan-releases-200000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:30:17","slug":"japan-releases-200000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69485","title":{"rendered":"Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture minister says rising prices have \u2018had a significant impact on people\u2019s lives\u2019 amid record heat, surges in demand and distribution problems<\/p>\n<p>Japan is to flood the market with almost a quarter of a million tonnes of stockpiled rice in an unprecedented attempt to arrest soaring prices caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/japan-weather-august-heat-record-heatwaves-china\">record summer heat<\/a>, panic buying and distribution problems.<\/p>\n<p>The government will release up to 210,000 tonnes of rice, the agriculture minister, Taku Eto, said on Friday, as consumers battled a surge in prices of more than 50% in recent months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/14\/japan-releases-200000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture minister says rising prices have \u2018had a significant impact on people\u2019s lives\u2019 amid record heat, surges in demand and distribution problemsJapan is to flood the market with almost a quarter of a million tonnes of stockpiled rice in an unprec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,2257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-rice"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69486,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69485\/revisions\/69486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}