Reform of the home front by Yangwoohoe Korea branch under the Japanese wartime food policies, 1938-1945

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This study aimed to explore the role of Yangwoohoe Korea Branch in supporting the Japanese colonial government’s wartime food policies. As an extra-governmental body under the Meiji Japan’s Army Ministry, Yangwoohoe in Japan contributed to the development of Japanese military diets and the dissemination of the concept of economic and efficient nourishment among civilian population in Japan. A main focus was placed on how the scientific knowledge and the idea of economy and efficient nourishment-fundamental concept of the Japanese military diet - was popularized in colonial Korea. Yangwoohoe Korea Branch was established under the influence of the colonial government and military in 1938 with the purpose of mitigating the wartime food shortage in Korea. From the outset, the Korean Branch was deeply involved in people’s dietary reforms in accordance with the wartime food policies of the colonial government, developing food resources, proposing substitute foods, and nutrition education. The Korean Branch played an important role in promoting the wartime austerity policy of the colonial government, spreading nutritional scientific concepts and knowledge to the Korean people. © Rushing Water Publishers Ltd. 2019.

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