The average price of rice sold at some 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through Sunday dropped ¥63 from the previous week to ¥4,142 per 5 kilograms, the agriculture ministry has said. The average was down for the fourth straight week, but it remained above ¥4,000 for the sixth week in a row. Ahead of the release of the latest average prices on Friday, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi told a news conference, "We're concerned that persistently high prices may lead consumers to

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