Feeding Japan

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 Yojokun (1713); Andreas Niehaus.- 3. 'Sweets Reimagined': The Construction of Confectionary Identities, 1890-1930; Mitsuda TatsuyaFor Gluttons, Not Housewives: Japan's First Gourmet Magazine, Kuidoraku; 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 Wine 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. Halal 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.