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This paper explores the development of the school lunch program in US-Occupied Okinawa, by focusing on the policy making process by the Government of the Ryukyu Islands (GRI), which was established as the local government by the occupier, the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (USCAR).
Previous studies especially illustrated that the school lunch program in US-Occupied Okinawa totally depended
on the food donation by the two organization of the United States: National Catholic Welfare Conference and
Church World Service. However, they have failed to elucidate why the dependance had arisen and influenced
the Law Concerning School Lunch Program, which GRI set in 1960. This paper clarifies how the school lunch
program in US-Occupied Okinawa was instituted and operated.
The results were as follows. First, the Land Problem in the mid-1950s had encouraged USCAR to promote
well-being of Ryukyuan people. Yet, the finances of GRI were severely constrained to follow the Policy of
USCAR. After political adjustment, USCAR succeeded to add the provision that GRI must serve to the children
or pupils even when the protector could not bear the school lunch expenses to the Law Concerning School Lunch Program. Second, dependence on the food donation caused the severe gap between what donators aimed to send and what Ryukyuan people needed. Millers' National Federation and United States Department
of Agriculture promoted to sell "Bulgur" as a new wheat food, however, a part of Ryukyuan people fed it to their hogs. This paper proves that although the food donation from the United States contributed to the school lunch program, we must realize it also obscured the decline of agriculture in US-Occupied Okinawa.
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