170714 Jakobina Arch講演会

日時：7月14日（金）17:00-18:30

テーマ：The American Occupation and Whale Meat in Early Postwar Japan

講師：Jakobina Arch（Assistant Professor of History, Whitman College）

場所：上智大学中央図書館９階　L-911号室

使用言語：英語

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Abstract:

During the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–52), whales became entangled in state policies dealing with food shortages and democratization. At this time, American policy-makers supported the revitalization of the whaling industry and distribution of whale meat in school lunches, which shifted how people should use and think about whales in Japan. American concern about food shortages both during and after the war were instrumental in promoting widespread whale consumption, by fitting whale meat into a new framework of distribution for a generation of children fed whale at school.