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The Law defines food education (shokuiku) rather vaguely as the acquisition of knowledge about food and the ability to make appropriate food choices. In this paper, my focus is the impact of shokuiku on discourses about food safety in relation to the nuclear disaster. I will address the following problems:  \nFirstly, the assumption that ‘domestic food products are the safest in the world’; secondly, the power relations between municipal authorities, producers and consumers in Japan; and thirdly, the question of whether food pedagogies can adequately address food safety concerns after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. I argue that, although the Basic Law offers a holistic approach to food in theory,  \n508 Food pedagogies in Japan  \nwith its focus on nutrition and the emphasis on domestic food, food pedagogies, practiced according to the Basic Law cannot adequately deal with the food safety problems that Japanese consumers face after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Because of the ignorance regarding food safety issues from official sides, Japanese consumers are left with a lack of awareness for these issues. Therefore, stakeholders who are not included in the state’s shokuiku campaign, such as consumer co-ops and Civil Radioactivity Measurement Stations try to provide knowledge about food to enable Japanese consumers to make appropriate food choices.  \nIntroduction  \nIn March 2011, Northern Japan was hit by a triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe – that killed almost 19.000 people and left Japan with the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. The aftermath of this nuclear crisis especially threatens the safety of domestic food products. When the nuclear disaster atthe power plant Fukushima Daiichi occurred in March 2011, large amounts of radioactive materials were released into the atmosphere and into the sea and groundwater. Only a few days after the accident, radioactive iodine was discovered in vegetables and milk. Today, caesium in food poses the largest problem to farmers from Fukushima and its neighbouring prefectures, as well as to consumers in the entire country. The Japanese government set provisional safety levels in late March 2011, which were revised and lowered in April 2012 . The exposure limits for caesium in normal food, such as vegetables, grain or meat, were lowered from 500 Becquerel per kilogram to 100 Bq/ kg (MHLW, 2012). More than one year after the nuclear disaster, irradiated food detected still exceeds old and new safety standards (Mainichi Shinbun 29.03.2012) .  \nCornelia Reiher 509  \nIn April 2005, the Basic Law on Food Education (shokuiku kihonhō) was enacted. This was against the background of various concerns related to food and nutrition, such as numerous food safety scandals, an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related diseases, and the fear of the loss of traditional food culture. It was developed by the Cabinet Office (Naikakufu) in co-operation with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) . In 2006, the Diet passed a five-year Basic Plan for the Promotion of Food Education (shokuikusuishin kihon keikaku) . In 2011, the second Basic Plan was released.  \nShokuiku is defined in the Basic Law as ‘the acquisition of knowledge about food and of the ability to make appropriate food choices’(Naikakufu, 2005). The term shokuiku is usually translat","cbCaio3NVcU7CYw6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio3NVcU7CYw6","pdf",127874,25,"English","# Introduction\n## Basic Law on Food Education and the concept of shokuiku\n## Post-Fukushima food safety challenges\n## Argument: limits of food pedagogies for consumer safety\n## Conclusion","[{\"question\":\"What is the Basic Law on Food Education (shokuiku kihonhō) intended to do?\",\"answer\":\"It is designed to define food education as acquiring knowledge about food and the ability to make appropriate food choices, responding to concerns about food safety, health, and cultural loss.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect shokuiku to food safety after Fukushima?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes how food pedagogies influence discourses about food safety in relation to the nuclear disaster, arguing that the law cannot adequately address the safety problems consumers face.\"},{\"question\":\"What key problems does the paper address in its argument?\",\"answer\":\"It tackles assumptions that domestic products are the safest, power relations among authorities, producers and consumers, and whether food pedagogies can adequately address safety concerns after Fukushima.\"}]","Australian Journal of Adult Learning - Volume 52 - Food pedagogies in Japan: From the implementation of the Basic Law on Food Education to Fukushima | PDF",1792077351,63]