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This article serves as a provocation to researchers to refuse the apparent 'safety' of the objective and a-political, and to continue to work on the 'how-to' of culturally sensitive research. This provocation works by means of an investigation into the uses to which narrative was employed in research into identity and difference in Japan. The research explores narrative as a means of generating, disciplining, dismantling and displaying difference-as-data, a process which insists on the difference that cultural difference makes for representing the Other -- in this case the problematics of female Japanese university students being re/presented by their male Anglo-Australian lecturer. The writing/displaying of this data pushed narrative form to offer up fresh notions of ethnicity and identity -- fresh accounts of a resistant Other. The study is therefore as much an exploration of narrative as a cross-disciplinary tool used to evoke the defiant speech of the Other, as it is a re-theorising of Japanese gender, resistance and power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article attempts to examine two contradictory notions of student resistance. The first being the traditional neomarxist Western understandings of student resistance such as those premised on an informal, disorganized and apolitical notion of agency. The second being the paradigm of postwar Japanese student resistance which grew from the ashes of World War II into at a series of splinter terrorist groups. A profusion of literature generated during the 1970s sought to demystify the role of educational institutions in promoting inequalities in society, by highlighting how they authenticated specific cultural and institutional provisions. Researchers refer to a general desire to analyze and interrogate the relationship between schools and their specific cultural and historical contexts, and to comprehend the roles of schools in terms of the ideological structures which they helped to sustain and reproduce. Education, for the first time was scrutinized under a series of new lens that enabled a relationship to be viewed between schooling, power and the "subject."

Purpose of Review: Medical foods in the United States, and foods for special medical purposes in other countries, are food formulations used to manage specific chronic diseases or conditions under medical or physician supervision. The process of reviewing and approving food claims for health benefits varies widely from country to country., Recent Findings: CODEX Alimentarius, a 187-country and one-member (European Union) organization, has standardized not only nutrition labeling and food safety worldwide but has also recently taken on a prominent role in analyzing therapeutic and health claims for food in member countries by providing a framework to study these issues. Two recent activities at CODEX - analyzing foods for special dietary uses and foods for special medical purposes therapeutic food claims - have focused on both how these food categories are formulated for patients with specific conditions and diseases., Summary: Food and specially formulated foods can play a role in preventing or mitigating disease and other health-related conditions. This article will examine the means by which regulatory authorities across the globe address health claims for foods and food-derived products to alter human physiology and disease outcome.