THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 24, 2020 at 19:00 JST
Yoshinobu Sakauchi, right, receives a board from manga artist Kenshi Hirokane, who served as a special judge, in Tokyo on Jan. 23. The board says 50 bags of Sakauchi's Yamada Nishiki rice will be bought at a price of 25 million yen. (Hiroki Ito)
A farmer's crop of the premium rice variety is of such sublime quality that the brewer of the renowned sake brand Dassai has agreed to pay him about 25 times the market price for it. [Read More]
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