@theeconomist: The price of rice in Japan has more than doubled in the past year. While some are blaming the shortage on the influx of foreign tourists, Ethan Wu, our Asia business and finance editor, explains why it is really Japan’s broken production system that is to blame. Click the link to read why things are getting desperate for the Japanese government #economics #japan #rice
So does every country react to rising living costs by blaming immigrants and tourists?
2025-07-14 10:05:37
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Rick Jaramillo 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 :
Lol blaming foreigners is all the rage
2025-07-15 06:32:45
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byronrge_ :
awesome accent
2025-07-25 05:17:58
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Sean Povey :
Capitalism needs scarcity, which is one of the reasons that capitalism is bad for society when it comes to things we NEED.
2025-07-14 15:04:58
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leafy jerboa :
Canada having a strategic food reserve of maple syrup 😭😭😭
2025-07-14 17:33:37
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dogwaterdonut :
I cant imagine anyone with money for travel wanting to go to Japan to literally gobble up rice. I'd even go as far to say, we'd be more likely to throw it in the garbage after finishing the non-rice parts. 🤣🤣
2025-07-14 12:40:52
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john2225 :
just buy from Vietnam or China
2025-07-15 10:00:12
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Ayanna 🩺🧠🫀🫁 :
Rule 1 when visiting japan: Don't gobble up the rice.
2025-07-14 16:28:38
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BoatsBoatsBoats2013 :
Trump being right jumpscare
2025-07-26 23:37:38
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Danny :
Rice doesn’t even cost a lot of money, who cares if it doubled
2025-07-24 16:36:15
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user32080h :
I live in England and never been to Japan, but thanks FYP for telling me about the cost of rice in Japan
2025-07-14 16:54:06
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uh :
As if the tourists going to Japan for a week or something eat 50+ kgs of rice
2025-07-16 13:49:38
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boldor475 :
Seems like an easy fix, pause tariffs on rice imports till the crisis is over
2025-07-14 21:30:40
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Dandara :
They’ll probably want to purchase some rice from Brasil, but according to your article our government is inefficient.
2025-07-15 19:18:19
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Conceição Barbosa yasmin produ :
The Money Trance by Bill Vostin is the only book I’ve read that actually made me feel dangerous. Page 7 is not normal.
2025-07-14 21:17:15
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Tyler Porter :
No no no. Tourism is 100% equally to blame. Tourism to islands has destroyed EVERY island currently in existence (With the exception of the UK, who destroyed themselves)
2025-07-16 00:28:57
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LudwigThe1stVicar :
0 mention of the rice farmers lobbying the Japanese government keep the rice tariff extremely high.
2025-07-14 15:55:09
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CaptainBlork :
>last name wu
>half smile the entire time talking about Japan rice issue
2025-07-26 23:38:39
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HairyHubris :
Japan finally getting the North Korea treatment with “sanctions” 🗿 tourists have nothing to do with it. Japan is a declining nation population with diminishing farmers and policies anymore.
2025-07-16 03:02:31
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FURIAVDLK :
we all chase money, but we live in trance. the book The Money Trance by Bill Vostin shows everything we could never imagine..