As an East Asia bureau chief of The Washington Post, Chico Harlan reports Japan’s school lunch menu through his personal interview of Japan’s elementary school. The intended audience is the general public as well as parents who become aware of the obesity plight or personal health problem. Harlan introduces the school lunch system by reporting his day in Tokyo’s Umejima Elementary School. Kate claims that Japan seriously values its lunch program as national pride and stands from the patron’s(students) viewpoint. On the contrast, America designs the healthy, locally produced food to enact the new act of school lunches, but fails to gain students interests and reduce the food wastes. Kate deeply analyzes the way Japan solves the eating disorder
