2.6 billion bowls! Of rice!Hanayo.......are missing!!
Refers to the 2025 rice shortage in Japan, during which rice prices nearly doubled compared to the previous year. (as of March 2025)
What Hanayo means by "2.6 billion bowls of rice" comes from a Nikkei Shimbun article, which estimates that at least 170,000 tons of rice, equivalent to 2.6 billion bowls, have disappeared from the market.
