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| Preface | |
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| Note on Transliteration | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Introduction - The Temple of Noodledom | |
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| The Ramen Question | |
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| Ramen - An International Force | |
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| Noodles and Nationalism | |
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| Three Sages Walk into a Restaurant and … Noodles | |
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| The Arrival of Noodles in China - Noodle Loaf? | |
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| Food Legends and the Roots of Noodle Worship | |
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| Premodern Noodles | |
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| Court Food versus Common Food | |
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| Shinto and Food | |
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| Chinese Food Technology | |
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| The Rise of Samurai and Medieval Japanese Food | |
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| International Japan, Foreign Foods and Isolation | |
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| The Rise of New Leaders and New Japanese Foodways | |
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| Edo is Not the Only City - Tokugawa Peace and a Piece of the Pie | |
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| Nagasaki and Chinese Food | |
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| Food and the Chinese | |
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| Passion for Noodles - Soba and Udon | |
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| Banning Noodle Consumption | |
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| Early Modern Noodles and the Myth of Ramen | |
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| Japan's First Chinese Chef - Shu Shunsui? | |
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| Edo - Feast and Famine | |
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| Kansai versus Kanto Taste | |
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| Edo and Meat Eating | |
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| The Meiji Restoration: Menu Renovation on the Road to Ramen | |
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| Treaty Ports | |
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| Barbarians and Banquets | |
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| Japanese and Meat Eating | |
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| The Militarization of Food | |
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| Sources of Bunmei Kaika - Civilization and Enlightenment | |
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| Nagasaki and Champon Noodles | |
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| Diplomacy and the Desire to Impress | |
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| Imperial Dining | |
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| Health, Hygiene and Food | |
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| Chinese in Meiji Japan | |
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| Imperialism and Food | |
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| Empire and Japanese Cuisine | |
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| Time is the Meter of Civilization - the Birth of Delicious | |
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| Food and Excrement | |
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| Raising the Standard | |
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| Ramen Debuts on the Japanese Stage | |
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| Other Theories | |
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| Nighttime Dining, Students and Erotic, Grotesque Nonsense | |
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| The Rise of "Nutrition" | |
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| Edo Started the Process, Meiji Promoted and Taisho Finalized | |
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| World War II Cuisine: A World Adrift | |
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| Starving Japan and Bountiful America | |
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| The Path to War | |
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| Wartime Cuisine and the Nation | |
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| Japanese Soldiers and Food | |
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| Food and Victory | |
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| Japanese Identity and Rice | |
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| Battle Zones and Prisoners of War | |
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| Food and the Home Front | |
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| Surrender and the Dissolution of Imperial Food | |
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| History at the Dining Table: Postwar Instant Ramen | |
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| The Sudden Postwar | |
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| A Land without Food | |
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| Repatriates and Food | |
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| A Dream Come True - Instant Ramen | |
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| Why Invent Instant Ramen? | |
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| Japan and Instant Ramen | |
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| The Ramen Boom | |
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| Ramen and Food Tourism | |
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| Branding the Local | |
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| Ramen Finds Its Way Abroad - First to America | |
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| You Are Not What You Eat | |
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| "Fighting for a Share of the Stomach" | |
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| Is Ramen Part of Japanese Cuisine? | |
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| Ramen Is Japan | |
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| Ramen Popular Culture | |
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| How to Eat Ramen - Slurp! | |
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| Comedy and Ramen | |
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| Ramen Fanatics | |
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| Mus�e de Ramen | |
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| Ramen Stadiums | |
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| Manga and Ramen Music | |
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| For the Love of Sushi | |
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| Ramen - With a New York State of Mind | |
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| The Global Impact of Japanese Food | |
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| The Rise of Ramen and Japanese Popular Culture | |
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| Competition for Original Ramen | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Dark Side of Food Greatness | |
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| The Future of Food in Japan | |
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| Changes in the Contemporary Japanese Diet | |
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| Did Japanese Food Create Japanese Identity? | |
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| Ramen and History | |
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| Now Go Eat History! | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |