The Name of a Bird Just before turning another year older in the summer of 2024, I learned that I had been wrong. What I grew up considering a type of “swallow” is a drastically different kind of bird. Allow me to explain by going back in time. In April 1936, an ornithologist named Canuto…
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How to Feed the Sick: Hospital Meal and Patient Care in Modern Japan (part I: till 1950s)
How did hospital meal come into being in modern Japan? Why did it become a compulsory part of patient care at hospitals?
Rationed Knowledge: Culture Films and Nutritional Propaganda in Wartime Japan
How was nutritional knowledge popularized on big screens in wartime Japan?
The Healthy Exotic Taste of the Empire: A Story of Restyling Manchurian Food in Modern Japan
What is Manchurian Food? Here is a short story about what it was, and how it was restyled by zest and curiosity of nutrition scientists, urban consumers, and policymakers in prewar and wartime Japanese Empire (1930s-40s).
Transformed Food and Dietary Style in Modern Japan (1870s)
How did nutritional knowledge transform people’s perception of food and dietary life in 1870s’ Japan?