180 kg of brown rice stolen from farm in Fukushima Prefecture

Rice is being precious commodity in Japan now.

SAD and unbelievable considering that rice prices are dropping fast.

Inside job for the insurance money.

SAD and unbelievable considering that rice prices are dropping fast.

In other parts of Asia yes that happening, however in Japan? There's no sign Japan will lower their tariff at all those Govt reserve at some point will empty and need to be filled with newer rice with newer higher price. So what being done by using those rice reserve just to delay another few years before Japanese need to face actual domestic rice price .

¥160,000 at current price.

180 kg of brown rice stolen? Somewhere, there's a doomsday prepper eating smug onigiri and laughing at us normies with unlocked barns.

Crime wave continues, fueled by inflation due to yen's massive loss in real asset (commodities) purchasing power

Hopefully, rice prices drop soon!

Police are urging growers to store their rice in locked barns and to install surveillance cameras.

Dunno about surveillance cameras, because we'll have farmers expecting the taxpayer to fund them. But yes, buy a lock or store it at home. It's only six bags.

I guess storing it at home would help also protect the rice against mice. The smallest ones are tiny and can easily get in most outbuildings.

Rice is being precious commodity in Japan now.

Rice has always been a precious commodity here. In feudal time, retainers of the great lords received varying amounts of bushels of rice for their perceived worth and service to liege lord. What has changed is the worth of the citizens. Their liege lords now deem them nearly worthless.

Unusual to hear of brown rice in Japan. Usually you can only buy Japanese white rice in stores. This must be a special order for overseas.

Japan must do two things, raise interest rates to strengthen Yen and allow massive amounts of food imports including RICE as domestic farmers dying off FAST!

And allow MANY seasonal farm workers, from other parts of Asia to easily enter the county in order to increase domestic agricultural production like Rice!

Rice is good as gold now.

Unusual to hear of brown rice in Japan.

People store rice as brown rice and polish it as needed. There are coin-op polishing machines all over rice growing areas.

Our local stores sell brown rice same as white. Many in our location buy a 30 kg bag of brown rice and use the local machines to turn it into white rice as required. We mostly eat brown rice but make white rice when we need it. 2 kg at a time.

Six 30 kg bag of rice @ 25,000 yen post milled = 150,000 yen = $1100 USD. Tokyo eki lost property would get more $ handed in per day. What is the more interesting storyline???

Nature gave it for free, someone else took it away for free. It's kind of theft and not nice and the much work involved isn't fully paid, but that happens everywhere and with everyone else too. You can ask every worker or employee about such. So don't always make an overhyped drama out of it. This is generally applied inter-human behavior and business style.

HopeSpringsEternalToday  12:35 pm JST

Japan must do two things, raise interest rates to strengthen Yen and allow massive amounts of food imports including RICE as domestic farmers dying off FAST!

Japan could switch on its nuclear power stations. Then they won’t have to buy more oil, in dollars at the weak yen rate. Then the money saved from NOT BUYING oil, switching on the power stations , that money could be diverted to other areas eg rice, farming etc. However Japan is still exporting rice to other countries because it gets more yen for the same bag of rice. Some Japanese rice is cheaper in other countries that Japan. Which sounds bonkers. Anyway,Strengthening the yen would hurt japans exports. (But could stop some rice producers selling overseas) Raising interest rates sounds simple. But it’s just economic wack a mole. Secondly Japan wants inflation to reduce the value of the yen debt. That’s basically it. We complained when we didn’t get a pay raise when inflation was negative or basically zero saying “we want a raise”, but somehow expect prices to remain the same. Thats economically impossible. Then when inflation comes along at 2.5% , we’re complaining prices are going up, and wages are increasing too.(maybe not at the rate we want) but there is clearly a relationship between them. You can’t have one without the other.

Use a Geiger counter to track it