Bringing rice back to Hawaiʻi: Japanese cultivars yield high-quality grains in just three months

In a major step toward enhancing food security and exploring the potential to bring rice farming back to Hawaiʻi, an ...
The Conversation

White rice with side dishes isn’t really ‘traditional’ Japanese food. So where did we get this idea?

At first glance, Netflix’s popular Japanese animation Delicious in Dungeon is a strangely food-obsessed dungeon-crawler fantasy tale. Upon a closer look, however, it reveals itself as a striking ...
Food & Wine

Consumer Reports Tested 52 Rice Products. These Had the Lowest Arsenic Levels

A new Consumer Reports analysis found inorganic arsenic in every rice product it tested, with brown rice averaging higher levels than white rice. Basmati and sushi rice had lower average inorganic ...
Reuters

More Japanese embracing foreign rice, even before it became a tariff topic

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had once seemed unthinkable: he switched to an ...
The New York Times

The Quest to Save the ‘King’ of Japanese Rice From Rising Temperatures

Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop. Koshihikari rice has for generations been the pride ...