= Kimchi growth factor added to the Japanese diet: Hiroshi Mori =

Kimchi might be Japan’s missing growth factor according to a Japanese professor, one more reason for how kimchi wound up being increasingly consumed by the Japanese. An article in the Korean Herald came out addressing the noticeable disparity in average height differences between Koreans and Japanese. The article stems from the dietary research of a […]

= Prized Fukushima rice turns industrial grade =

With washoku, Japan is trying to inculcate that Japanese always had a food culture centered on white rice, which is another Meiji and Hirohito Japan creation.  Now it seems Fukushima has entered the washoku myth making. The radioactive rice is being blended with other sources to dilute away any radiation issues.  But the Japanese people are still […]

= Hidden meaning behind hinomaru bento box rice =

This innocuous looking story singing praises about Japanese government cafeteria bento box came out.  Tokyo Metropolitan Building Staff Cafeteria Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tok … -cafeteria The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF reasons to visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. It’s the tallest city hall in the world, evokes a […]

= Curry rice born from British style Meiji era militarization =

As previously explained, ancient pre-Meiji Japan did not have a widespread food culture based on rice. The food culture was so lacking due to the silent resignation of the populace to grow rice but live a riceless and meatless life. Boys were culled and girls raised to be sold off, things were that bad. So […]

= Killer rice? =

Rice plays a big role in washoku presentation to make the world believe the Japanese always had a widespread traditional food culture based on rice.   The washoku myth has its roots in Meiji Japan.   Japanese culture was invented during Meiji Japan, but before then, rice consumption was too irregular to even become a common part of Japanese […]

= Rice was not a staple food =

Rice was never quite a staple to the Japanese commoners for hundreds if not perhaps thousands of years despite farming it to an extent.  The rice growing methods and tools were poor, no widespread draught animals to rely upon, less caloric intake sustained less caloric physical output through overwhelmingly human labor, so that despite laboring in […]