1st Edition
Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan Nourishing National Identity
By Stephanie Assmann
Copyright 2025
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku . The country’s impressive health metrics — high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care — often lead observers to praise this approach. This book presents a more nuanced analysis. First, it challenges the assumption that food education is wholly a “good thing” by... Read more
Introduction, Chapter One - Food Education: A Theoretical Framework, Chapter Two - The Historical Trajectories of Food Education, Chapter Three - The Shokuiku Campaign: Food Governmentality in Present Japan, Chapter Four - Shokuiku Policies in Rural Areas, Chapter Five - Food Education and Sustainability in Times of Crisis, Moving Forward: Embracing Sustainability, References.
Biography
Stephanie Assmann’s research interests are foodways and culinary politics, life in rural Japan, employment and diversity. She is co-editor of Japanese Foodways, Past and Present (with Eric C. Rath, 2010, University of Illinois Press) and editor of Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan: Challenges and Opportunities (2016, Routledge).
