See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think of dorm rooms and cheap calories. But, as Alisa Freedman, a professor of Japanese literature, cultural studies and gender at ...

See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think of dorm rooms and cheap calories. But there was a time when eating from the product’s iconic packaging exuded cosmopolitanism, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon (THE CONVERSATION) See a container of Cup Noodles ...