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The national government settled on "Healthy Japan 21" as the premier preventive policy of lifestyle related dis-eases in 2000. In 2005, the effectiveness of the campaign was conducted, but the results did not turn out as ex-pected. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare made the "Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top (JFG-ST)" as a practical and easy way to improve eating habits for all of the people. The JFG-ST falls down when the balance of the diets worsens and expresses a stable thing in what a turn (exercise) does. Eyes down quantity to take out of each group per day is shown in the basic form by the 5 distinction from grain dishes, vegetable dishes, fish and meat dishes, milk, and fruits. In 2005, the Basic Law on Dietary Education was enacted to promote the die-tary education about the importance of eating proper meals in order to solve problems such as inappropriate eat-ing habits and nutrition intake, disturbances in diets, increases in lifestyle-related diseases, a fall in the rate of food self-sufficiency and so forth. The Ministry of Education and Science started a program to train people to become "diet and nutrition teacher" in primary school. JFG- ST is developed in a dietary education campaign as a standard method of the dietary education. In May, 2011, the government has announced the second dietary education promotional basic plan to assume five years.
Key Words: nutritional policies, dietary guidelines, Healthy Japan 21, Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top, Basic Law on Dietary Education
THENUTRITIONAL POLICIES IN JAPAN
The problem of malnutrition by the food shortage follow-ing World War II was solved by substantially improving everyone's nutritional state in a short period. School lunch programs and nutrition education took on an impor-tant role in this. In various regions, dietitians provided nutrition education, for example with the use of the "kitchen car", which was really a bus with its rear con-verted into a kitchen that was used to provide lessons on various cooking practices.
Japanese people subsequently began to develop an in-terest in nutrition and this brought with it modernization and westernization of Japanese eating habits. After the malnutrition problem was solved, nutritionists and dieti-tians faced the overwhelmingly negative public percep-tion that their services were no longer necessary....