Typical food selections of Japanese children living in the United States: Comparison with the recommendations of the U.S.D.A. Food Guide Pyramid

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 503-521
Author(s):  
Junko Ishihara ◽  
Norma Bobbitt ◽  
Rachel A. Schemmel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Typical Food ◽  
Food Guide Pyramid

scholarly journals Are there Picky Preschool Eaters in Japan?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Wojcicki ◽  
Akiko Kawanami
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Picky Eating ◽  
Preschool Programs ◽  
Behavior Syndrome ◽  
Children Under 5

Abstract Background: Picky eating or refusing certain foods (or food groups) and/or having strong likes and dislikes around food is common among preschool children in the United States. Japanese children under 5 years of age may have minimal amounts of picky eating due to the Japanese preschool programs that emphasize shared eating.Methods: In this study, we visited 8 hoikuen and yochiens (kindergardens) in Tokyo and Chiba prefectures. Interviews were conducted with managers, teachers and dietitians and observations were made of meal and snack times. Results: Japanese preschool/nursery meal times are structured and follow a specific format of thanks, group seating and multiple plates/bowls of food, none of which are finger foods. Conclusion: We conclude that the frequency of picky eating in the United States may be a culture bound syndrome, or a behavior/syndrome specific to American and Western cultural norms.

Vietnamese Are Not Genetically Short

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1024-1024
Author(s):  
AMOS S. DEINARD
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Commentary ◽  
American Children

To the Editor.— Dr Stickler, in a recent commentary (Pediatrics 1984;74:559), mentions as an example of genetic short stature the child of a Vietnamese refugee. My experience during the past 5 years with the Vietnamese as well as the other Southeast Asian groups (lowland Lao, Hmong, and Cambodian) who have immigrated to the United States since 1979 suggests that their growth may be no different from that of post-World War II Japanese children, ie, with good maternal and postnatal medical care and nutrition, children will grow at levels comparable to American children on whom the growth curves were normed.

Panpan: Streetwalking in Occupied Japan

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Sanders
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
The U.S

This article explores sex markets in Occupied Japan. These operated under a legal regime distinct from traditional pleasure quarters and provided wage labor. There, streetwalkers, or panpan, had unprecedented control over their work. Many came from the middle class and formed women-led gangs that resembled criminal syndicates. The former especially concerned social scientists and mothers in postwar Japan. Calls to sanitize public space to protect Japanese children increasingly dominated public discourse about the U.S. military bases. By 1953 new regulations forced panpan into brothels where they lost the control over their labor they had enjoyed during the Occupation (1945–1952). This article also suggests that reactions to base prostitution in Occupied Japan paralleled those in the United States during the war.

Unintentional Cooperation

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-186
Author(s):  
Terry Kita
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Government Response ◽  
The Us ◽  
American Children

Abstract This study of the Friendship Doll Mission of 1926-1927 shows how, in the United States, the Japanese doll was part of the inescapable image of a kimono-clad little Japanese girl, and functioned to further existing anti-Japanese implications of that image. It further shows how an American popular-culture mission to improve relations with Japan by having American children exchange dolls with Japanese children, created an official, Japanese government response that presented the United States with Japanese dolls that were objects of Fine Art. Despite the different views of the Doll Mission in Japan and the US, an interchange resulted that, now nearly a century later, continues. The article uses Japanese dolls to demonstrate how genuine cultural exchange can occur even when the methods, approaches, and the very intent of those involved in it differ, in order to highlight the importance of considering both perspectives to understand phenomena such as Japonisme.

scholarly journals Microcomputer Control of Commercial Citrus Taste Evaporators

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Chen ◽  
R. D. Carter ◽  
C. J. Deimling ◽  
E. S. Moisa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Processing Industry ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Sponsored Programs ◽  
Microcomputer Control ◽  
Typical Food ◽  
Industrial Groups

Food processing (and related industries) ranks sixth among all major industrial groups in the utilization of energy in the United States (16). Because of this high ranking, the food processing industry is included in government sponsored programs to conserve energy. These programs often support the demonstration of some energy saving techniques in a typical food plant as an example for the industry. Paper published with permission.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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