The acceptanace of milk and dairy products in the Modernization of Japan

• Main Author: 施佩妤
• Other Authors: 小林幸夫
• Format: Others
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63131369934917884650

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 日本語文學系碩士班 === 95 === In late 18th, after the Industrial Revolution., Europe and America entered Asia markets. After the admiral Mattew Calbraith Perry urged Japan to open trade, there was a serious reformation in Japan. Then Edo Bakuhu turned power back to the Mikado. The Mikado changed from the Edo to the Meiji Era and learned western modernization. The trend of that age was called Bunnmeikaika (文明開化). It was a process that Japan tried to mix the European modernization into Japanese traditional lifestyle. After a serious imitation from Europe, not only the standard of living was improved in Japan, but the traditional lifestyle was changed. At the first time, people in Japan were told to make a point of the nutrition of food. Then the government imported a large number of Western foods into Japan. In this report, I cleared that in the modernization of Japan, how was the Japanese lifestyle changed, especially in food. Then I want to take milk and dairy products for example to explain clearly. During Kotokutennou’s (孝徳天皇) Era, Kudara’s(百済) Kikajin (帰化人) Hukujyou (福常) presented milk to the Mikado. In Edo Era, few people drank milk as some kind of medicine, but most people hadn’t drunk milk once. In Meiji Era, the new government persuaded people to drink milk because of the nutrition, and encouraged people to do the stockbreeding. But at that time, people believed that if you drink milk you’ll become a cow. Also people didn’t think milk was tasty. Long before one is aware that milk itself has been revaluated, realized, and accepted as a nutritious drink. Besides, after the spread of dairy products, people took milk as tasty drink gradually. At the beginning, people thought drinking milk was only an imitation from European. But finally, milk became an important drink in Japanese life more than they expected. In my paper, I would like to examine how the values of milk and diary products were influenced by the modern paradigm, and how milk and diary products were reborn and positioned in the process of modernization. The first method of this research is that I want to clear the acceptance of milk and dairy products by reading the milk history of Japan. Second, I’ll gather some essays, news or advertisement columns in the newspapers, literature works that have talked about milk and dairy products to find out how Japanese feel about milk and dairy products. Finally, I’ll combine the findings of the research to situate milk and diary products in the process of modernization of Japan. 【Keyword】：Reformation, Bunnmeikaika, Modernization, Milk, Diary products, Nutrition, Paradigm.