One of the arguments Kobayashi cites is the growing of millet instead of rice would be a more efficient use of farmland, and Japan wouldn’t have to relyon imported food so heavily. This would reduce pressure on global farmlandsand allow some of Japan’s former imported food to be exported to a less self-sufficient country. Kobayashi expands:“Considering Japan’s self-suffiency rate of food supply is 40 percent(calorie-base) and the fact that it imports more than half of its foodfrom overseas, changing from white rice to miscellaneous grains isone way that Japan could help mediate the world’s food problem”.The last argument Kobayashi makes for the revival of millet is that it isnutritionally superior to white rice. Millet contains balanced proportions of protein, vegetable fat, and starch and has more dietary fiber, vitamins, andminerals compared to white rice. More of the grain’s nutrients are retained, ascompared with “…nearly a 50 percent loss of the vitamin B complex and iron”(Cambridge World History of Food 144) in the milling process of rice.Two more important staples in the Japanese diet are udon and soba.Udon are made from wheat flour, while soba are made from a mix of buckwheatand wheat flours