View Photo Gallery — In Japan’s schools, a homemade meal for lunch: Japan does struggle with childhood and adolescent eating disorders. Schools in Japan give their students the sort of food they’d get at home — not at a stadium, as in the United States. The meals are often made from scratch. They’re balanced but hearty, heavy on rice and vegetables, fish and soups, and they haven’t changed much in four decades. Here’s a look at a day in the lunch-break of third-graders at Tokyo’s Umejima Elementary School.In TOKYO — In Japan,school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen.