Symposium “THE FUTURE OF FOOD II Nutritional Education and Communication ― a Japanese-German Dialogue”

Our lives are filled with information about food. We have diverse opportunities to get food knowledge such us schooling, daily shopping, and the Internet/SNS, and it is important to select reliable information and deepen our knowledge of food. Furthermore, we are faced with a variety of food issues that affect our health, environment, and society. We need nutritional education that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to participate and communicate through food to solve these issues.

This symposium invites experts of nutritional education from Japan and Germany to discuss the possibilities of food learning and communication.

Video Recording (Japanese and German): 国際交流基金×ベルリン日独センター共催シンポジウム「日独対話から考える食の未来2 ―食育とコミュニケーション―」

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Online Symposium "The Future of ‘Food’ ― Dialogue between Germany and Japan"

Date	Thursday, January 25, 2024
Time	6 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. JST (Doors open at 5:30 p.m.)
Venue	Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB) and online
Language	Japanese and German (simultaneous interpretation available)
Organizer	The Japan Foundation
Co-organizers	Japanese-German Center Berlin

Program

Session 1: Keynote-Speech

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. KAMIOKA Miho

Vice President and Professor; Department of International Food and Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Prof. Dr. Ines Heindl

em. Professorin für Ernährungswissenschaft, Haushaltslehre und ihre Didaktik, Abteilung Ernährung und Verbraucherbildung, Europa-Universität Flensburg; Forschungsschwerpunkt: Essen, Ernährung und Kommunikation

Session 2: Panel Discussion:

Moderator:

Jana Dreyer

Wissenschaftliche Referentin, Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. KAMIOKA Miho

Vice President and Professor; Department of International Food and Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Prof. Dr. Ines Heindl

Christin Becker

Projektkoordination „Tafel is(s)t gesund und nachhaltig“; Tafel-Akademie gGmbh

DOWAKI Akito

Deputy Director; Consumer Affairs and "Shokuiku" (Food and Nutrition Education) Division, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

HIRANO Kakuji

CEO; Meals on Wheels Japan

Dr. Barbara Kaiser

Gruppenleiterin Ernährungskommunikation; Bundeszentrum für Ernährung (BZfE) in der Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung

Profiles of Panelists from Japan

Photo of KAMIOKA Miho

KAMIOKA Miho

Vice President and Professor; Department of International Food and Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Kamioka Miho holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the Tokyo University of Agriculture. Since 2016, she has been a professor at the Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, and, since 2021, has served as Vice President of the university. She specializes in agricultural and food economics and her research focuses on food and agriculture, e.g., the impact and sociological significance of food education and local production for local consumption.

She was a member of the Council of Food, Agriculture, and Rural Area Policies in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries and the Council for the Creation of Future Education in the Japanese cabinet office. She is now a member of the Council for the Promotion of Nutritional Education in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.

Photo of DOWAKI Akito

DOWAKI Akito

Deputy Director; Consumer Affairs and "Shokuiku" (Food and Nutrition Education) Division, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Dowaki Akito is a graduate of Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law. He joined the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in 2017 because he wanted to work for the education of the children who will carry the future of Japan. At MEXT, he was engaged in tasks such as the legalization of digital textbooks and the revision of the copyright system

He was also seconded to the Reconstruction Agency, an authority set up for reconstruction after the Tôhoku earthquake in 2011. During the Recovery Olympics program, he was responsible for disseminating information about food from the affected areas, which stimulated his interest in nutrition and agriculture. From April 2022, he completed a six-month internship at a non-profit organization working in the field of nutrition and agricultural education. Since July 2023, he has been responsible for nutritional education at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.

Photo of HIRANO Kakuji

HIRANO Kakuji

CEO; Meals on Wheels Japan

Kakuji Hirano was born in Tokyo. With the slogans "The community is one family" and "Community support through food," he is a member of the Tokyo Council of Social Welfare and a member of the Committee for the Promotion of Public Welfare to foster mutual aid activities involving local residents.

He also serves as vice chairman of the executive committee of the "Spread the Children's Cafeteria Circle!" He is also vice chairman of the Japan Forum for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy and a board member of the Society for Applied Gerontology, Japan.

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