THE STUDIES ON STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN JAPANESE FOOD-SYSTEM

随着人们对即食食品需求的增加和外出就餐的日益流行，日本人的饮食习惯也变得多样化。这就是所谓的“出门做饭”。这意味着食品工业在我们的饮食习惯中扮演着重要的角色。因此，我们有必要对农业和食品工业进行分析，以了解食品供应结构。本研究的特点是将日本的食物供给结构作为一个由农业、食品工业和食物消费构成的系统来分析，我们称之为食物系统。2)农业与食品工业的关系。我们研究项目的成员是14位农业经济学家。但也有一些学者运用了食品经济学和商业科学的交叉学科方法。研究成果主要由两部分组成：1)食品系统研究的对象和方法。2)食品研究的发展。

The eating habit in Japan have been diversifing with the increasing demand of ready food for eat and the rising popularity of eating out. It is so-clled 'cooking at out of home'. It is meaning that food industries are playing the important role in our dietary habits.Therefore, it is necessary for us to analyze agriculture and food industry for under standing the structure of food supply. The distinctive feature of our research is to analyze the structure of Jananese food supply as a system composed by agriculture, food industry, and food consumption, we called 'food system'.We mainly researched two points as follows ; 1) theoritical research of food system. 2) the relationship of agriculture and food industries. The member of our research project are fourteen agricultural economists. But, some of them are using interdisciplin ary approaches from food economics and commercial science.The research results are composed two parts as follows ; 1) the subject and methodology of food system research. 2) the development of food research.