Introduction: The Sociology of Food Modernization PART I. The History of Food Modernization in Japan 1. The Making of the Modern Food System 2. The Making of the Modern Family and Nutritional Science 3. The Postwar Rebirth of Food Modernity 4. The Radicalization of Reflexive Food Modernity PART II. Gastro-Anomy in Contemporary Japan 5. Food Affluence: A Food Capability Approach 6. Food Poverty Beyond Nutritional Deprivation 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.
