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A fragment of an educational poster indicating nutritional value of different foodstuffs,<br />

issued by the Tokyo Institute for Nutrition and Provisions, 1938.<br />

Graduates of the school were offered employment in a variety of institutions<br />

related to mass catering, food processing, food rationing and public<br />

nutrition, as well as Ryōyūkai’s own infrastructure throughout the Japanese<br />

empire.<br />

As an umbrella organization through which the influence of the<br />

military on civilian consumption practices was channelled, Ryōyūkai<br />

played an important role in the construction of the uniform model of mass<br />

catering in Japan. By the late 1920s, army kitchens – with modern equipment,<br />

motivated and well-educated personnel, and economical yet nourishing<br />

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