Urban Food Deserts in Japan [electronic resource] / by Nobuyuki Iwama, Tatsuto Asakawa, Koichi Tanaka, Midori Sasaki, Nobuhiko Komaki, Masashi Ikeda.

9789811608933

1st ed. 2021.

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

1 online resource (XXI, 237 p.) 93 illus., 1 illus. in color.

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This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD). Currently, Japan has the most rapidly aging society in the world, with a shrinking population and food desert issues in connection with the isolation of the elderly people from their families and local communities. The types of food deserts that Japan is currently facing are likely to occur in many other countries under similar circumstances in the near future. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers and policymakers who are working on FD issues in Japan as well as in other countries. The book consists of 8 chapters, with each chapter covering a different aspect of FD, and it also includes case studies, one of which is the FD in Tokyo.

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May 05, 2021