The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator from California and a nationalistic Japanese politician is further complicated by concerns about the cumulative effect of pesticide use in both American and Japanese agriculture.

• Shin-Ei Animation
• Kazuhiko Inoue
• Mayumi Shou
• Osamu Kato
• Ako Mayama
• Chikao Ohtsuka
• Osamu Saka
• Rei Sakuma
• Shunsuke Shima