The world’s most expensive rice exported to world’s silliest
Japonica rice is rice japonica . 
The Japanese charge more—eight times more—for their rice, but it ain’t any better.
Saaaa, down on my rice ranch in Shikoku island, even my Japanese inlaws cannot tell the difference between premium Californian japonica and the japonica rice we grow.
If Chinese japonica was harvested, handled and stored with the same equipment and methods, the Chinese could sell japonica in Japan for an eighth the cost and nobody would know the difference. Actually, this mislabeling scam happens a lot in Japan now.
Japan eyes rice exports to China: Nikkei
(Kyodo) _ Japan hopes to start exporting rice to China as early as this summer to capitalize on growing demand for quality rice in the Chinese restaurant industry, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported …
Here some staple food for thought: Japan’s tariffs on imported rice are 407 percent.
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