CNA938 Rewind - Grain drain: Japan struggles with a rice crisis

Sky-high prices, rations, emergency reserves. Japan’s rice crisis has ballooned, with the essential Japonica grain out of reach from the Japanese consumer – it even led to the resignation of the country’s agriculture minister. Andrea Heng and Susan Ng speak with Dr Seijiro Takeshita, Dean and Professor of Graduate School of Management, Informatics and Innovation at the University of Shizuoka on how the problem got this far.