Feeding Japan : The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk

This edited collection explores the historical dimensions, cultural practices, socio-economic mechanisms and political agendas that shape the notion of a national cuisine inside and outside of Japan. Japanese food is often perceived as pure, natural, healthy and timeless, and these words not only fu...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Niehaus, Andreas (Editor), Walravens, Tine (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Japan > History.
Cultural studies.
Religion and culture.
Ethnicity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319505534
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-50553-4
Physical DescriptionXI, 540 p. 10 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reconsidering Japanese food; Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walravens
  • Part I: Inventing Japanese Food Identities
  • 2."They should be called gluttons and be despised": Food, Body and Ideology in Kaibara Ekiken's Yōjōkun (1713); Andreas Niehaus
  • 3. 'Sweets Reimagined': The Construction of Confectionary Identities, 1890-1930; Mitsuda TatsuyaFor Gluttons, Not Housewives: Japan's First Gourmet Magazine, Kuidōraku; Eric Rath
  • 4. Global Recognition and Domestic Containment: Culinary Soft Power in Japan; Stephanie Assmann
  • Part II: Feeding the Nation: Japanese Food Identities in Times of Globalization
  • 5. Deconstructing "Kokushu": The Promotion of Sake as Japan's National Alcohol Drink in Times of Crisis in the Sake Industry; Dick Stegewerns
  • 6. The Drink of the Nation? Coffee in Japan's Culinary Culture; Helena Grinshpun
  • 7. Forging Ahead with Bread: Nationalism, Networks and Narratives of Progress and Modernity in Japan Sheng Annie
  • 8. Joining the Global Win e World: Japan's Winemaking Industry; Wang Chuanfei
  • Part III: Japanese Food Industries Inside-Out
  • 9. Chinese Food Threatening the Japanese Table: Changing Perceptions of Imported Chinese Food in Japan; Tine Walravens
  • 10. Domesticating the Japanese Culinary Field in Shanghai; James Farrer
  • 11. Ḥalāl Foods Discourse and Constructing Muslim Identities in Japan; Ono Junichi
  • 12. Eating Japanese - Being Japanese: Ethnic Food in Hawai'I; Jutta Teuwsen
  • Part IV: Agricultural Politics of Self-Suffiency and Dependency
  • 13. Japan in the International Food Regimes: Understanding Japanese Food Self-sufficiency Decline; Felice Farina
  • 14. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Import-Dependency, and the Future of Food Security in Japan; Paul O'Shea
  • 15. Subsidized Tradition, Networks, and Power: Hamlet Farming in Japan's Changing Agricultural Support and Protection Regime; Hanno Jentzsch
  • Part V: Post-Fukushima Food Education and Food Safety
  • 16. Eating School Lunches Together after the Fukushima Accident; Kimura Aya H
  • 17. National Solidarity of Food Insecurity: Food Practice and Nationalism in Post- 3/11 Japan; Takeda Hiroko
  • 18. Discourse on Food Safety and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Perspectives from Japan; Cornelia Reiher.

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