A Japanese cooking show, whose first episode aired 65 years ago, has been inducted into the Guinness World Records as the longest-running cooking show

The Japanese cooking show "Kyo no Ryori", whose first episode aired 65 years ago, has been inducted into the Guinness World Records as the longest-running cooking show, Japanese public broadcaster NHK announced show, whose first episode aired 65 years ago, has been inducted into the Guinness World Records as the longest-running cooking show, Japanese public broadcaster NHK announced.

Since its launch in 1957, the show "Kyo no Ryori," or "Today's Cooking," has featured nearly 46,600 recipes, reflecting the changing times, from economic recession to women's emancipation.

"What should I cook for dinner tonight?" is the perpetual question that everyone asks themselves, said the show's chief producer, Mayumi Yanai, to the press at a ceremony in Tokyo. This cooking show, she continued, seeks to "sincerely answer this question and align with our family audience."

Its first episode, in 1957, was about a Western-style curry cooked with oysters, when one in four Japanese people suffered from malnutrition.

During the global oil crisis of the 1970s, the show adapted and featured inexpensive recipes for an audience struggling financially.

In the 1980s, when women began to enter the workforce, the show focused on meals that could be prepared quickly. It also began to feature "men's dishes" at that time.