Wholesale supply - Japan's Rice Stockpiles Could Ease Food Crisis - US News and World Report

In the mid-1990s, under pressure from other countries, Japan began importing rice for the first time in at least a generation. Since then it has imported hundreds of thousands of tons of rice, much of it from the United States. But little of the rice
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