井出 留美
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井出 留美

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Rumi Ide is a specialist in the Problem of Food Loss and Waste, a journalist and a certified　consumer advisor, certified by the offices of the Prime Minister and Minister of Economy. She received a doctorate in Nutritional Science after receiving a master in Agricultural Science. She also completed post graduate work at The Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences/Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo She then joined the Lion Corporation where she was runner-up in a contest judged based on volunteer work. She decided to leave the company and “make a difference for humanity” by becoming a participant in the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). On returning to Japan she worked as both the head of the public relations and operations for social responsibility at Kellogg （JAPAN） K.K. where she started aid to food banks that distribute surplus food to the needy. She left the company and started office3.11 (KK) after the life changing events of March 11, 2011 when she became appalled by seeing the large amount of food aid wasted during the recovery from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (officially called the Great East Japan earthquake and referred to as 3.11 in Japan due to the date it occurred). office3.11 worked on PR for food banks, which led to it being the first NPO to receive the Grand Prize for both the PR Awards Grand Prix in the category of Social Communications and for the Food Industry Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Director General Prize in the category of Food Industry Waste Elimination, as well as other prizes. She has appeared as an independent agent over 540 times on NHK, the Japanese public broadcasting station, in the Nikkei Newspaper, as well as other media outlets. She chairs the “Kawaguchi Food Loss Reduction Review Team” which also includes members from the City Council of Kawaguchi, officials from Saitama Prefectural government, the Board Chairman of the Commercial District Promotion Association of Kawaguchi, and local bakeries, etc. As chairperson she conducts monthly meetings that hold regular food drives collecting surplus food and distributing it to the needy. Wrote and published The Best-By-Date Lie [Shoumi Kigen no Uso] (Gentosha Literary Publication) now in its 5th printing. Awarded the 2018 Grand Prize in the category of “Food Culture” for the Second Food Life Journalist Award for my work focusing attention on the food loss problem at a national level. Awarded the 2018 Yahoo! News Editorial Section Author Award.
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