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Japan's rice crisis: Greedy tourists won't stop eating it

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 09, 2025
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Three Japanese Women in Colored Kimonos Eating Rice, anonymous, (1900-1920) public domain

Japan is selling off its emergency rice stash for the first time since 20161 because prices have doubled, and would you believe one of the culprits is tourists stuffing their faces with onigiri at every 7-Eleven from Tokyo to Osaka?

France 24 reports that record numbe…

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