In recent years, the number of foreign visitors such as tourists and businesspeople, and the number of foreign residents such as workers and international students, have been steadily increasing in Japan. However, the decrease in the number of foreign residents in Japan is relatively small compared to the number of foreign visitors to Japan, due to travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regarding restaurants, Japan has experienced diversity, progress, and cross-cultural understanding; however, these changes have been stagnant due to a decrease in the number of foreign visitors to Japan during the pandemic. Many natural disasters have recently occurred, and it has become urgent to address diversity from a perspective that regards foreign residents and emergency food. Evacuation centers have lagged behind in responding to food diversity, although the members of municipalities are diverse. Diversifying emergency foodstuffs is a difficult issue. Recently, the development of alternative meat products and other foods produced from new technologies has progressed, and some foods have been approved of by religious tenets that uphold culinary restrictions. This paper addresses the possibilities of food technology in a diverse society based on the results of a questionnaire completed by students.
Masayo Morofushi (Wed,) studied this question.