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...Traditionally, Japanese families would eat meals like the one prepared by Shinobu every day: low in fat with lots of seafood, it is a cuisine that has helped the country to world-record levels of life expectancy. But Nobuko Iwamura says the wholesome Japanese diet is, today, mostly a myth, and she has the photo evidence to prove it. Since 1998, Iwamura has conducted in-depth surveys on what the Japanese are actually eating, asking thousands of Tokyo-area parents to photograph the meals they serve their families over the course of a week. The results are surprising to anyone...
...Punishing office and school schedules make a home-cooked meal a fantasy for most Japanese families during the week. The pre-cooked convenience store food that usually substitutes at home is a nutritionally inferior substitute, and those dinners on the run promote what Iwamura calls "selfish eating," with each family member consuming alone, rather than together at the dining table. With mothers increasingly working outside the home - and with family size shrinking, as young people hold off on marriage - there's even less reason to eat a healthy Japanese meal at home. "People aren't interested in eating well," says...
...effort to preserve the country's culinary culture, schools have begun promoting "food education" - teaching students Japanese eating habits. Children take time out of math and science to visit a farmer harvesting rice, or learn to prepare buckwheat soba noodles - a favorite Japanese dish -from scratch. But critics like Iwamura and Ehara say the classes have more to do with promoting Japan's inefficient and politically protected farming sector than cooking or eating. The reality is that as long as increasing numbers of Japanese have to be at work or school until late at night, there...
There arrived in the U. S. a Japanese Commission, established to examine the trial-by-jury system of the Occident. Among the members Were M. Minagawa, Attorney General of Japan; M. Toyomizu, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Tokio, and M. Iwamura, Councilor and Secretary to the Minister of Justice. After leaving the U. S., the Commission will proceed to Britain, France, Germany and Italy, to conduct further investigations into the application of trial-by-jury in the courts of those countries...
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