Japanese rice prices are a weird combination of inflation, panic buying, inefficient farming, and a bureaucracy managing it all that actively wants rice to be more expensive. This video has a really good explanation of it.

https://youtu.be/l4vTQV3HjKU

I mean, it was 26 years after the pope thing but she did convert to Islam. Even changed her name.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/29/1190953443/how-sinead-o-connor-found-peace-in-islam-after-a-lifelong-struggle-with-religion