{"id":72033,"date":"2025-02-14T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72033"},"modified":"2025-02-14T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:09:19","slug":"japan-releases-200000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/14\/japan-releases-200000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1z1LBQ.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The price of rice in Japan has soared amid summer heatwaves and distribution issues. Photograph: Richard A Brooks\/AFP\/Getty Images\" \/><\/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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/japan-weather-august-heat-record-heatwaves-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">record summer heat<\/a>, panic buying and distribution problems. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/japan-releases-200-000-tonnes-of-emergency-rice-stockpile-as-prices-soar\/ar-AA1z1J7e?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=06650ac2b7324141a1e933783fea6c2a&amp;ei=77\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Japan is to flood the market with almost a quarter of a million tonnes of stockpiled rice in an unprecedented attempt to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rice-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72034,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72033\/revisions\/72034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}