Introduction: The Sociology of Food Modernization
PART I. The History of Food Modernization in Japan
Chapter 1. The Making of the Modern Food System
Chapter 2. The Making of the Modern Family and Nutritional Science
Chapter 3. The Postwar Rebirth of Food Modernity
Chapter 4. The Radicalization of Reflexive Food Modernity
PART II. Gastro-Anomy in Contemporary Japan
Chapter 5. Food Affluence: A Food Capability Approach
Chapter 6. Food Poverty Beyond Nutritional Deprivation
Chapter 7. Reinventing Food Policy
Conclusion: Poverty in Affluence, Affluence in Poverty
Biography
Haruka Ueda is Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo. His research focuses on the sociology of food, food ethics, and agricultural economics, with particular attention to food modernization and inequality in Japan, Asia, and France. He is the author of the English-language book “Food Education and Gastronomic Tradition in Japan and France” (2022) and several Japanese-language books, including “History of Nutrition Philosophy in Japan” (2025) and “Food Capability and Food Poverty” (2024). Combining sociology, history, and ethics, his recent work explores the food cultures and food systems under conditions of reflexive and compressed food modernity in East Asia. He has received several academic awards, including the Japan Society of Agricultural Economics Award and the Sugita Genpaku Award, and has also contributed to policy proposals as a specialist committee member on food policy in Japan.
