FOOD IN JAPAN
Baron Masuda of japan, and other leaders have undertaken to alter the food customs of thousands of years by trying to relieve the Japanese people of- their helpless dependence upon rice as the staff of life. More than half the soil of the islands is taken up with, rice culture, and still does not supply each, individual with the five bushels he- needs for'his year's nourishment. Formerly Japan called for extra,' supplies from China - and other mainland countries," but the wars have so diminished all agriculture that that country has barely enough for herself. Baron Masuda can see possibilities of calamity like that which has overtaken districts'in India. The remedy sought is in educating the, Japanese to enjoy other cereals, many, of which are really more nourishing, ■ richer in gluten and'fat than rice. But rice is the bread of Eastern-Asia, and deprivation of this means' deprivation of life to,half, the population of fhe. world.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 13
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157FOOD IN JAPAN Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 13
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