Protecting and Promoting Traditional Food Culture in Contemporary Japan : Registration of Food Culture as a Cultural Property with the Agency for Cultural Affairs

Minami, Naoto (2025) Protecting and Promoting Traditional Food Culture in Contemporary Japan : Registration of Food Culture as a Cultural Property with the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In: Living eating habits, revitalized foodways and the concepts of tradition and food heritage. ELTE HTK Néprajztudományi Intézet; Néprajzi Múzeum, Budapest, pp. 207-216. ISBN 9789634165200; 9789635670840

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Abstract

This paper explains the general trend of the reevaluation of traditional eating habits in Japan in recent years and the development of the cultural policy of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the government agency which officially recognises the cultural value of traditional food culture and examines the examples submitted for the registration process as intangible cultural property.

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