| Changes of the Activity and Role of School Lunch Programs in Japan
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 School lunch programs in Japan have been implemented as a part of the lunch supply program to school children to maintain and improve their health status in accordance with the law on the School Lunch Programs enacted in 1954. However, the number of children who suffer from lifestyle-related diseases causing health programs has been increasing because of excessive food intake and frequent irregular time of meals in the recent years. For this, in 1997, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport started the discussion on the matter of the relationship between desirable meals and health for school children and made the proposal that the main objective of school lunch programs should be replaced from meal supply to nutrition education. The proposal suggested that teachers responsible for homemaking and/or science should work together from time to time with school dietitians in the class to effectively help towards the understanding of health education and school lunch, because they had not been allowed to do so in the past. Under the new policy implemented in June 1999, the school dietitians, under the license of “special part-time lecturer”, have been positively participating in the teaching activity towards better health administration and improvement of meals for children.
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