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For the Japanese, a doubling of rice prices is not an existential crisis.  Even statistically poor Japs can afford that.  However, rice is a global staple, particularly in SE Asia and the Indian subcontinent.  In countries like Bangladesh an Cambodia, it means large swaths of the population will be priced out of sustenance level nutrition.  India & Pakistan are teetering on the edge of Nuclear War.  Food riots are likely to follow,

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/23/japan-faces-a-rice-crisis-as-price-nearly-doubles-for-food-staple

Japan faces a 'rice crisis' as price nearly doubles for food staple

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Let them eat rice cakes.





We first will figure out exactly how much rice there is, and where it is," Ishiba said.

*  I agree, that would be a very good idea.