About the Author

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Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (Author) Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is professor of modern Japan studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Yasuhara Miho (Author) Yasuhara Miho has published on a variety of topics within Japanese culinary history. Her expertise on the wartime period (1937-1945) is particularly strong. Yasuhara is coauthor of Himerareta washokushi (2016) and "Beyond Hunger: Grocery Shopping, Cooking and Eating in 1940s Japan," which is included in the edited volume Japanese Foodways, Past and Present (2010).