1.   American pressure has helped open the Japanese market to imported rice, apples, oranges, and logs, and most Japanese have benefited from the resulting lower prices.

2.   American pressure has helped open the Japanese market to imported rice, apples, oranges and logs, and most Japanese have benefited from the resulting lower prices.

3.   A lingering drought has raised food prices and forced the government to spend its reserves on imported rice.

4.   But with imported rice now common in Japan, there is no longer any taboo on the import of sake.

5.   The trouble is, the government cannot flood the market with enough imported rice to offset the upward price spiral of domestic rice sold by private traders.

6.   Two years ago that resulted in Filipinos eating imported rice in the dark.

7.   Bernas had in the past imported rice in US dollars, but from last month it began buying Thai rice in ringgit and rice from Pakistan in rupee.

8.   Bernas had in the past imported rice in US dollars, but from last month, it began buying Thai rice in ringgit and rice from Pakistan in rupees.

9.   He declined to say whether Indonesia has imported rice or only planned to.

10.   He mentioned South Korea, which, like Japan, was wracked by protests last year when it opened its markets to imported rice.