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RICE

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BASKETBALL / NBL NOTEBOOK
Mar 25, 2014
Hitachi forward Rice fondly recalls uncle's remarkable NFL achievements
As much as Darius Rice has been referred to as a basketball player blessed with size and phenomenal skills, he's probably always been known because of the name of his uncle and former NFL great: Jerry Rice.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 10, 2014
There is a giant serving of culture in one bowl of rice
Rice. A bland, white carbohydrate? Staple food that forms the nourishing core of every meal? A crop that has molded culture and society? Or primal sustenance imbued with mystic life force of the gods?
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 28, 2014
Abe's deceptive rice reform
On Dec. 9 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared that his government has abolished the subsidy system for reductions in rice acreage, yet subsidies for growing rice as animal feed will greatly increase.
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BUSINESS
Jan 8, 2014
Sake boom revives rice types as Abe eyes exports
Farmers on Japan's west coast will sow Nihonbare rice this year for the first time in a decade as growers around the country return to older varieties to meet demand for record sake exports.
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MORE SPORTS
Jan 3, 2014
Obic routs Kwansei Gakuin for fourth straight Rice Bowl triumph
The Obic Seagulls rewrote the history book of American football in Japan again as they clinched their unprecedented fourth consecutive Rice Bowl title by defeating the college champion Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters 34-16 on Friday at Tokyo Dome.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 2, 2014
Seven healthful reasons to visit the park
An important start to the new year should include not only a good mental rest, but for those of us who have been festive feasting the past few days, a break for our stomachs, too. On the seventh day of the new year, there's a custom in Japan of enjoying a bowl of rice porridge seasoned with seven spring...
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JAPAN
Dec 15, 2013
Deceptive rice price reforms viewed as too late for industry
Toru Wakui has defied the government's “gentan” rice production controls since the 1970s, but the farm ministry's plans to abolish them haven't made him any happier.
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JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Dec 15, 2013
No country for small-time rice farmers
In the suburbs of Tokyo, rice farmer Koichi Yuge is weighing how the government's change of heart on controlling rice prices will impact his 300-year-old family business.
JAPAN / CHARITY DRIVE 2013
Dec 5, 2013
Fund helps feed impoverished rural Laotians
Despite making significant economic progress over the past 20 years, Laos remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in Southeast Asia.
EDITORIALS
Dec 1, 2013
A shift in rice production policy
It will take much more than an end to the rice paddy area reduction policy coupled with subsidies to turn Japanese agriculture into a growth sector as envisioned by the Abe administration.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 6, 2013
Abe team seeks to kill rice program by 2018
The Abe administration proposed Wednesday abolishing in 2018 the decades-old government program of limiting paddy usage to keep rice prices high, a landmark policy shift that would increase competition among domestic farmers.

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