Japan’s rice Shortage is putting emergency stock of the emergency

The results of a rare auction, looked in Japan ended this week are to be released. But there was no paintings or old cars in the auction block.

The government sells 165,000 rice tons – equivalent to two billion of low-than-the-year-old riding more than to be more than a Japanese news say “.

But there is more to the story.

Japan has not enough rice, a pillar of their diet. A forced shortage forced for implementing purchases of purchase, and the ribs of the daily food pricing prices drives. Things have achieved so funny that, for the first time, the government has touched to their emergency foam in an effort to conceive the prices.

“Something that really happened, so we have to return the current normal abnormal situation, sounded in the habit of agriculture and resumed wednesday.

How did this happen?

Rice began to become scarce in Japan last summer. Experts have awarded that at a factor confluence, including record the summer heat in 2023 that hurt the picking and warnings of natural dyssters ultimate august that caused panic purchase.

Japan closely limitly rice rice production and keeps prices and domestic support, meaning minor destruction may have a more wedding string.

A lot of 11 pounds of rice costs almost 4.000 yen ($ 27), double the price one year before. As prices starting the past year, authorities have notified against panic purchase, saying the colline of Japan has replaced the stocks and reduces the prices.

Only one of those two predictions come. Even though the picking up in more last-year-old rice, japan distributors have less than sells in 2024.

“I lame, you know” “He said, Shibi thean, a professor to the graduate of Kyoto University economy.

But the experts inside and out of government think they have a good idea.

It has become harder to track the distribution of the policy of policy gave more ways more than selling the rice traditionally, HIS WAY TEACH. That shirts, more strict limits on the production, it means that even light fluctuations in supply and demand enrolling a speculative purchase and stockpiling.

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“Some firms and individuals started treating rice as the money game,” he said.

Will the auction help?

We’ll find out in the weeks and months to come.

The government decision to sell part of their strategic reserves reservations in the auction was historic. In the past, stockpile has been reserved for the supplies in the case of natural disasters or crop failures. This is the first time it has been used to address distribution problems.

The government is part of 231,000 tons, to match the national deficiency. That the figure represents more than one fifth of the total emergency of Japan, which is set up in more than 300 places.

Distributors “FIRST 165,000 in Ontona, and the results – to be bored on Friday – you show you as many sellers. The government said he hopes the rice start to scroll and supermarkets, and that the 66,000 remaining tons will be on sale later.

For a nation running on the rice – the Japanese person consumed 110 pounds of rice during 2022, compared with the 27 pounds for the middle American.

“Risiu is a integral part of Japanese life”, Takao IIZAKA, 62, told by his tent in Tokyo. “I think there are concerns over or not rice is available, Japanese are worried now.”

Mr. IIZAKA sell raw rice from the bag, and cooked in the rice balls with cutled apples, salmon and other shells. The past month was forced to lift the price of the $ 1 rice balls for 20 percent to hold with the prices of their main engineer.

Now you care, for the first time in the three decades worked at the store, about if it will be in the fair source to the last pick up. One of their suppliers told her in January who had already run out of rice for the year.

“This is the first time I’ve felt this sense of anxiety,” he said, “said”