This thesis examines current national sustainable diet policies in China and Japan and their conformity with the Sustainable Healthy Diets policy guidelines proposed by the FAO and the WHO. Qualitative content analysis is used to identify the level of conformity, policy themes, and objectives of the texts of the policy documents. MaxQDA 2022 text-based analytic software was used to organize and enable a close reading and a line-by-line coding of the analyzed policy documents. The content analysis method proved useful in examining the policy documents and revealing their themes, objectives, and level of conformity with Sustainable Healthy Diets. The current policy of China has an overall low level of conformity, whereas the Japanese policy has an overall medium and high levels of conformity.
