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...foreign rice and televised taste tests in which participants deemed the strange grains inedible. So shoppers stood in long lines or turned to the black market to buy local rice at outrageous prices instead of cheaper imports. "We see no positive effects of increasing foreign rice imports," says Tomochika Motomura, an official at the general food policy bureau of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Rice and Men | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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