{"id":4216,"date":"2025-08-06T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ishiba-to-reverse-rice-curb-policy-as-government-admits-to-miscalculating-demand\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:22:22","slug":"ishiba-to-reverse-rice-curb-policy-as-government-admits-to-miscalculating-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ishiba-to-reverse-rice-curb-policy-as-government-admits-to-miscalculating-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishiba to reverse rice curb policy as government admits to miscalculating demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Japan is poised to reverse its long-standing policy of limiting rice production, following a government admission that miscalculations in supply and demand forecasts contributed to a nationwide rice shortage and soaring prices over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>During a ministerial meeting Tuesday on rice supply, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba acknowledged that the sharp rise in rice prices was the result of insufficient domestic production and the government&rsquo;s failure to accurately forecast demand.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had assumed that production volume was adequate, despite the lack of sufficient analysis,&rdquo; Ishiba said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Ishiba to reverse rice curb policy as government admits to miscalculating demand<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is poised to reverse its long-standing policy of limiting rice production, following a government admission that miscalculations in supply and demand forecasts contributed to a nationwide rice shortage and soaring prices over the past year. During a ministerial meeting Tuesday on rice supply, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba acknowledged that the sharp rise in rice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ishiba-to-reverse-rice-curb-policy-as-government-admits-to-miscalculating-demand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ishiba to reverse rice curb policy as government admits to miscalculating demand&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}