Taiwan's rice exports to Japan surge sixfold

Japanese shortage opens up opportunity

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Taiwanese Agriculture Minister Chen Junne-jih, center, speaks in the rice-producing county of Hsinchu on June 9. (Taiwan Ministry of Agriculture)

HIDEAKI RYUGEN

TAIPEI -- Taiwan exported more than six times as much rice to Japan in the first five months of 2025 than a year earlier, new Taiwanese government data shows.

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