Japanese queue for hours as rice shortage deepens
Japanese queue for hours as rice shortage deepens
Rising prices and poor harvest create political pressure for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of July poll
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Japan’s long-standing efforts to protect domestic farmers from outside competition, including limiting imports of foreign rice
Here’s the why in case anyone is wondering. It’s not a global issue.
Was gonna say… Every local store near me has literal pallets of rice available.
Of course part of that is the fact that Western diets don't really involved anywhere near the quantity that the Japanese consume it at.
After all rice pudding was invented to try and use rice up, because no one was eating it.
Maybe they should have had a plan B for situations like this. It's great to take care of your own, but this is a perfect example as to why you can't put all your eggs into one basket.
They do, of course. There's plenty of rice of other kinds.