The concept of social sustainability presents many questions for food studies, both about how communities sustain foodways, and how foodways sustain communities. Based on an ethnographic study of restaurants in a single Tokyo neighborhood, this re...
In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with migration are commonplace and others where migrants are regarded as unusual or even out-of-place. In...
Culinary borrowings are so common as to seem trivial, and yet they are consequential for many of the actors concerned. People’s livelihoods, professional status, and social identity may be tied to their stake in the defining boundaries of culinary...
Food Culture & Society 24(1) 49-65 2021年1月 [査読有り][招待有り]
In postwar Japan vast black market districts surrounded urban commuter train stations with warrens of small-scale retail, food and alcohol vendors. Most were bulldozed during the period of high economic growth and replaced with modern shopping cen...
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(10) 2359-2375 2020年 [査読有り][招待有り]
Migrants do not simply move across physical spaces but within institutionalised social fields, including occupational fields. This ethnographic study takes a globalised culinary field - the social and economic space of fine restaurant dining - as ...
Japanese Cultural Center of the Palacky University, public lecture 2023年9月13日 Palacky University (Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci) [招待有り]
Japonská kuchyně se stala opravdu světovou - podává se ve více než 150 000 restauracích mimo Japonsko - od jednoduchých jídelen až po chrámy “fine dining”. Největší rozmach zaznamenala v posledních čtyřiceti letech, ale kořeny konzumace japonských...
Conference on Food and Sustainability: Local food system, food policy and global engagement, 2022年8月12日 Sustainable Ecological Ethical Development Foundation (SEED) and Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong [招待有り]
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2022年3月27日
Japanese foodways have long been characterized by local diversity, unique products, relatively small-scale production, and attention to culinary artisanry, but all these features are endangered by multiple crises, with many exacerbated by the COVI...
Since opening in 2012, Tokyo Skytree has become one of the city's most popular tourist spots. But what's less known is that the area was also a leisure destination centuries ago in the Edo period, thanks to its many temples and shrines. Then, as J...
This time we explore the Omori area, located in the south of the city along Tokyo Bay. As a former aquaculture hub specializing in nori (edible seaweed), it retains a deep connection to the ocean. James Farrer (Professor, Sophia University) visits...
Extensively employ the moodle online teaching system to develop courses online, allowing for improvement of access of students to resources and flexible offline communication with students.
I have been teaching students to do qualitative fieldwork since 1998, and developing new methods for organizing qualitative interviewing for undergraduates.
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