Ever since 1954, kyushoku (school lunch) has been an official part of the Japanese school curriculum. Over the years, the laws and menu items have changed, from adding the role of a nutritionist to ...

To support struggling families and encourage population growth, free school lunch programs have risen dramatically across Japan ... to all students in public elementary and junior high schools.

OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Musashino City School Lunch & Dietary Education Promotion Foundation in Japan prepares massive quantities of school lunches, called kyushoku, every day. More from ...

A new study led by Professor Sayaka Nakamura from Sophia University in Japan and Professor Shiko Maruyama from Jinan University in China published in the journal Health Economics reveals the ...

A nutritiously balanced lunch at Nigorikawa Junior High School includes wakame seaweed ... This will make it easier to promote dietary education." (Japanese original by Shuichi Kanzaki, Niigata ...

It has also provided online Japanese language lessons to elementary school students ... to learn their children’s needs regarding school lunch or prayer, among other things,” Kaneko said.