The rice riots began by the seaSourced
Rice was leaving the port while locals struggled to buy it.
In 1918, protests over rice prices began around Uozu, a fishing town in Japan's Toyama Prefecture, then spread to nearly 500 places. An estimated one to two million people took part, and the Terauchi cabinet resigned.
A problem at the dinner table reached the government.
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