Articles
-query word : Consumer
June 15, 2010
March 01, 2010
2. Capitalism: A System Based on Speculation
What is speculation? In general terms, it means to conjecture without firm evidence, and in particular refers to the act ...
November 24, 2009
Vol. 24: Pan-Fired Tea (2)
Japanese owes its green color to the lack of fermentation. While smed s are far more common, there is ...
November 04, 2009
Vol. 24: Pan-Fired Tea (1)
Japanese tea owes its green color to the lack of fermentation. While steamed teas are far more common, there is ...
August 04, 2009
Vol. 21:Konbu (Kelp)
Since ancient times the Japanese have taken in essential minerals, such as sodium, calcium, and potassium, as well as iodine ...
March 30, 2009
Vol. 15: Dried Bonito
Dried bonito is a major source of the traditional soup stock that is essential to so many Japanese dishes. The ...
March 10, 2009
Vol. 14: Eight-Rowed Corn
Eight-rowed corn sustained the lives of those who had newly settled Hokkaido in the late nineteenth onward. It has since ...
January 29, 2009
Vol. 10: Koji, an Aspergillus
Miso soup for breakfast and dinner, soy sauce that always makes it on the dining table, the evening cup of ...
December 04, 2008
Vol. 8: Rapeseed Oil
For ages, rapeseed oil was an important oil in Japanese cooking. But while oil consumption has increased with the Westernization ...
December 04, 2008
Risk Communication in Relation to Food
How should the government respond to public anxiety about the safety of food? The process by which the British Food ...
