Dining Dojo Reviews Japanese School Lunch, kyushoku!!

  Introducing a new section on Dining Dojo!!  Due to recent events, Dining Dojo now has the opportunity to review Japanese school lunches and hopefully further the discussion on school lunches and the importance of nutrition and diet in schools. 
  I will be reviewing school lunches from the city in which I work at.  In Japan, each city tend to have different school lunches.  Some lunches at are made on the school premises, while other cities will have school lunch centers at where the lunches are made.  Plus, some cities hire a private company to provide the school lunches.
  I often hear that Japanese school lunches are healthy.  On the school lunch menu, they list the amount of calories that are in each meal.  Also, each school lunch has a glass bottle or carton of milk for the students to drink.  I found this surprising because Japanese people tend to be lactose intolerant.  Many of the students will drink milk.  However when a student does not drink their milk, I have seen on different occasions Japanese homeroom teachers almost forcing the student to drink the milk.  It all depends on the Japanese homeroom teacher.
   Also, I am thinking that this will be important for anyone to read who will teaching at a Japanese public school.  School lunches tend to surprise and even sometimes shock non-Japanese teachers.  I hope this section will shed some light on the Japanese school lunch.

Itadakimasu!!