Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan: Nourishing National Identity - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stephanie AssmannSeries:Consumption and Sustainability in AsiaPublish date:8/5/2025Pages:202
Language:EnglishPublisher:Amsterdam University PressISBN-13:9789462985247ISBN-10:9462985243UPC:9789462985247Book Category:Education, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Rural, Public Policy, Agriculture & Food (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:Agriculture & Food Policy, Public PolicySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC336CVRVJ
Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan: Nourishing National Identity
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...
Series: Consumption and Sustainability in Asia
Language:EnglishPublisher:Amsterdam University PressISBN-13:9789462985247ISBN-10:9462985243UPC:9789462985247Book Category:Education, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Rural, Public Policy, Agriculture & Food (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:Agriculture & Food Policy, Public PolicySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC336CVRVJ
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).
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