Japan is not often considered to be a nation of unrest. But it takes rice seriously. Eto Taku, the country’s agriculture ...

Films based on actual incidents are often rife with mistakes, as Wikipedia-educated experts are quick to point out. However, these films can also shine welcome light on overlooked real-life heroes.

Or supposing the famous “Rice Riots” of 1918, mass nationwide protests against soaring rice prices, had been less violent, or less brutally suppressed; or Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik Revolution ...

The move to work with civilians on policing was triggered by a wave of rice riots that occurred in 1918 due to soaring rice prices. Impoverished and seeking fair rice prices, people took to ...

Such is the importance of rice to Japanese people that a spike in prices in 1918 led to a nationwide wave of protest. The so-called “rice riots” forced the then prime minister, Terauchi Masatake, to ...

And just as rising rice prices fueled rice riots and toppled the Japanese government in 1918, today's price hikes now threaten political stability in the global south. Immediate and instant access ...