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.

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