Research Faculty

UEDA Haruka

UEDA Haruka

Assistant Professor
Office of International Academic Affairs,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
ueda.haruka[at]
Research theme: Food Cultures and Food Systems in East Asia

Food Cultures and Food Systems in East Asia

Research Topics

Inquiry into the good – said Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945)
Then, what is a good way of eating?

Past research:
1) Food education and food cultures in Japan and France
2) Applying capability approach to ‘eating well’ and ‘food poverty’
3) Food system analysis and food policy development

Current and future research:
1) Japanese food philosophy, particularly modern nutrition philosophy
2) Evolution of eating models and food systems in East Asia
3) “Food studies” for an interdisciplinary dialogues

Research activities

Books
  • Ueda, Haruka. Food Education and Gastronomic Tradition in Japan and France: Ethical and Sociological Theories: Routledge, 2022.11. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. The Theory and Pedagogy of Food Education: An Inquiry into “Gastronomes” (Young Researcher’s Award of Japanese Society of Agricultural Economics): Showado, 2021.3. (in japanese)
Thesis
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Research on Food Education through Taste Education and Gastronomy: Developing Children’s Food Capability.” PhD diss., 2020. (in japanese)
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Policy and Operationalisation of the Food Security Principle: Reflection on the Revision of the Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas.”Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics 95, no. 3 2023.12. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Backgrounds and Challenges of Food Education Policy in Taiwan: Risk or Chance in the Reflexive Food Modernity?”Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2023.10. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Policy in France: Perspectives for Fighting and Preventing Food Poverty.”Journal of Food System Research: The Food System Research Association of Japan 30, no. 2 2023.9: 53-68. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Multidimensional Food Poverty: Evidence from Low-Income Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan.”Food Ethics 8, no. 13 2023.6. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Education Policy in Taiwan: Food and Agricultural Education Act, its Backgrounds and Policy Framework.”Japanese Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics 81, no. 3 2023.6: 129-137. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “French Sociology of Food and its Contemporary Issues: Perspectives from ‘Sociology of Eaters’.”Journal of Food System Research 30, no. 1 2023.6: 15-26. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Aid and Related Challenges in Japan: Moving Towards Equality of ‘Capability’ not ‘Consequence’.”Journal of Food System Research 29, no. 4 2023.3: 243-248. (in japanese)
  • Mognard, Elise, Kremlasen Naidoo, Cyrille Laporte, Laurence Tibère, Yasmine Alem, Helda Khusun, Judhiastuty Februhartanty, Yoko Niiyama, Haruka Ueda, Anindita Dasgupta, Anne Dupuy, Amandine Rochedy, Jan Li Yuen, Mohd Noor Ismail, Pradeep Kumar Nair, Neethianhantan Ari Ragavan, and Jean-Pierre Poulain. ““Eating Out”, spatiality, temporality and sociality. A database for China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and France.”Frontiers in Nutrition: Frontiers Media SA 10 2023.2. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Japanese View of Nature: Discursive Tradition, its Problems and Implications for Food Studies.”Sustainability 14 2022.7: 8057-8066. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Norms and Practices of Eating Well: In Conflict with Contemporary Food Discourses in Japan.”Appetite 175 2022.6: 106086-106097. (in english)
  • 新山陽子, 小嶋大造, 大住あづさ, 上田遥, 松原拓也, 工藤春代, 清原昭子, 山口道利, 八木浩平, 杉中淳, 山口靖, 藤田晋吾, 武田裕紀, 長野麻子, 吉松亨, 久納寛子, 中島明良, 林達二, and 高橋克也. “Report of Working Group on Territorial Food Vision.”: 農林水産省 2022.4.
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Ethics Reexamined: Capability Approach and its Present Challenges.”Journal of Ritsumeikan Gastronomic Arts and Sciences 7 2022.3: 251-269. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “What is Eating Well? Capability Approach and Empirical Exploration with the Population in Japan.”Appetite: Elsevier BV 170 2022.1: 105874-105885. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka, Yoko Niiyama, and Azusa Osumi. “Impacts of COVID-19 on the Food System and its Responses: A Case Study in Kyoto.”Journal of Food System Research: The Food System Research Association of Japan 28, no. 3 2021.12: 111-127. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Central Wholesale Market under the Emergency and its Publicness: A Lesson from the COVID-19 Response.”Journal of Food System Research 28, no. 3 2021.12: 160-171. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Structuration of Territorialised Food Systems through Wholesale Markets: A Case Study in Kyoto.”Quarterly Journal of Food, Agriculture and Social Studies 87, no. 6 2021.11: 99-108. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka, Azusa Osumi, Tomohiro Okada, Haruyo Kudo, Taizo Kojima, Atsushi Suginaka, Koyu Hurusawa, and Yoko Niiyama. “Food-related Crisis Facing Contemporary Japanese Society.”Quarterly Journal of Food, Agriculture and Social Studies: Eimei Information Design 87, no. 6 2021.11: 10-27. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “National Food Programme in France.”Quarterly Journal of Food, Agriculture and Social Studies: Eimei Information Design 87, no. 6 2021.11: 209-211. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka, and Jean-Pierre Poulain. “What is Gastronomy for the French? An Empirical Study on the Representation and Eating Model in Contemporary France.”International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science: Elsevier BV 25 2021.10: 100377-100388. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Philosophy of Taste Education: Reading Jacques Puisais as a Contemporary Humanist-Gastronome.”International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science: Elsevier BV 25 2021.7: 100385-100394. (in english)
  • Niiyama, Yoko, Azusa Osumi, and Haruka Ueda. “Territorial Food Projects and Territorialised Food System in France.”Journal of Food System Research: The Food System Research Association of Japan 28, no. 1 2021.6: 29-45. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Establishing a Theoretical Foundation for Food Education in Schools Using Sen’s Capability Approach.”Food Ethics 6, no. 6 2021.4: 1-18. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Histories and Pedagogical Nature of Taste Education in Japan, France and Italy though Textbook Analysis.”Journal of Food System 27, no. 2 2020.9: 48-66. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka, and Yoko Niiyama. “How is a Wholesale Market Reacting to COVID-19? : Reconfirming its Mission as a Locally-Embedded Social Infrastructure.” Agriculture and Economy. Vol. 86. no. 8, 2020: 106-116. (in japanese)
  • Niiyama, Yoko, Jean-Pierre Poulain, Haruka Ueda, Mathilde Labeaut, Laurence Tibere, Yayoi Kito, and Haruyo Kudo. “Associated images of the health effects of radioactive substances in food and their origins: Studies in Japan and France.”Japanese Journal of Risk Analysis 29, no. 4 2020.5: 273-285. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “エビデンスに基づく食育の推進にむけて—日本の小学校における「味覚の授業(ルソン・ドゥ・グ)」.” Consumer Decision-Making and Behaviours: Showado, 2020: 186-210. (in japanese)
  • Niiyama, Yoko. “フランスの專門職業(間)組織と農業協同組合―その機能の専門性とは何か.” Managerial Survivability of Agricultural Enterprises, Food Safety: Showado, 2020: 307-318. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, HARUKA, and Yoko Niiyama. “Articulating Challenges in Defining Japanese Washoku and French Gastronomy: Comparative Analysis of Inscribed Definitions and their Safeguarding Measures.”Journal of Food System Research 26, no. 3 2019.12: 144-164. (in english)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Achievements and Challenges of Food Education Research in Agricultural Economics and Implications from Relevant Disciplines through Interdisciplinary Literature Review.”Journal of Food System Research 26, no. 3 2019.12: 128-143. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Book Review: La Naissance du gourmand. Grimod de la Reynière et la Révolution française (Hashimoto, C., 2014).”Guidebook for Food Studies 2019.3: 101-105. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Conditions for academitizing food studies: Book review on “Introduction to Food Studies: For Comprehensive Understanding of Food” (Toshio ASAKURA et al., 2018).”Agriculture and Economy 84, no. 9 2018.10. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “A comparative analysis of promotion systems of taste education in Japan, France, and Italy: Suggestions for Japan’s Shokuiku (Food Education).”Journal of Food System Research 25, no. 3 2018.6: 48-70. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Impact evaluation of the updated educational programme of taste education with its evaluation system improved based on the development of “food curiosity” scale.”Journal of Japanese Society of Shokuiku 12, no. 2 2018.4: 109-124.
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “”Rational” discussion of so-called “Irrational” wholesale market: Through interviews with Kyoto Central Wholesale Market I (fruit and vegetable) and II (meat).”Agriculture and Economy 83, no. 11 2017.11: 30-41. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Impact evaluation of a school-based food education intervention on cognitive and attitudinal aspects of children’s dietary habits: A case study of a sensory education program “Leçon du Goût”.”Journal of Food System Research: The Food System Research Association of Japan 24, no. 1 2017.9: 2-17. (in english)
  • Niiyama, Yoko, and Haruka Ueda. “French inter-professional organisations and agricultural cooperatives: Their roles and professionalism.”Agriculture and Economy 83, no. 7 2017.7: 82-91. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka, Haruko Onoshima, Mamiko Izutani, Risa Masayoshi TANAKA, Takuya YOSHIDA, and MATSUBARA. “Survivability from a managerial economic perspective: Dairy farming and rice farming in Japan.”Natural Resource Economics Reviews of Kyoto University Special 2017.3: 25-39. (in english)
Book Reviews
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Reply to Book Review: ‘The Theory and Pedagogy of Food Education’.”Journal of Rural Problems: The Association for Regional Agricultural and Forestry Economics 58, no. 3 (2022.9): 175-176. (in japanese)
Conference
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Dietary Norms and Practices of Single Mothers in Japan: A Comparison of the Poor and the Non-Poor.” Presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Food System, June 2023. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Quality of Eating Life: Capability Approach and Measurement in Japan.” Presented at the 11th Conference for the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists, March 18 2023. (in english) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “A Proposition for Territorially-Anchored Food Policy: Moving Towards Well-Eating Centered Measures.” Presented at the 11th Conference for the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists, March 2023. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Education in Japan and Europe: Risk or Chance in the Second Food Modernity.” Presented at the Invited Lecture for ‘Food, Environment & Culture’ Department, Tsinghua University, December 28 2022. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Relative Nature of Eating Well and Food Poverty: A Combined Theory of Capability Approach and Sociology of Food.” Presented at the Human Development and Capability Association 2022 Conference, Antwerp, BEL, September 22 2022. (in english) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Problems and Public Actions in Kyoto: Towards Development of Territorialised Food System.” Presented at the Research Workshop on Territorial Food Vision, August 2022. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Japanese View of Nature, Discursive Traditions and its Problems: Towards Food Education for Sustainable Development.” Presented at the 10th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Food Education, June 2022. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Food Aid and its Problems in Japan: Towards the Equality of ‘Capability’, not ‘Consequence’.” Presented at the 2022 Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Food System, June 2022. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Literature Review and Effective Methodologies for Analysing ‘Food Poverty’: Exploratory Application with Single Mothers in Japan.” Presented at the 2021 Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Agricultural Economics, March 2022. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “An Empirical Study of “Well-Eating” in Japan: Discrepancy between Norms and Realities.” Presented at the 68th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Nutrition and Dietetics, October 2021. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Concept of “Well-Eating”: The Theoretical Foundation and Exploratory Empirical Validation.” Presented at the 9th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Food Education, June 2021. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Wholesale Market and its Publicness under COVID-19.” Presented at the Symposium on Agri-food Business under COVID-19, June 2021. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Central Wholesale Market under the Emergency and its Publicness: A Lesson from its Responses to the COVID-19.” Presented at the 2021 Annual Conference of Food System Research Association of Japan, June 2021. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Niiyama, Yoko, and Haruka Ueda. “Habitudes alimentaires au Japon.” Presented at the Modernité alimentaire et diversité en Asie, Paris, France, March 18 2021, OCHA (Observatoire CNIEL des Habitudes Alimentaires). (in english)
  • Ueda, H. “Empirical Analysis of the Concept of Gastronomy in the French Public: An Inquiry into “Well-eating”.” Presented at the Japanese Society of Agricultural Economics 2021 Conference, March 2021. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “A theoretical foundation of food education using Sen’s capability approach.” Presented at the 2020 Human Development and Capability Association Conference, Auckland, AUS, June 2020. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Exploring the Philosophy of Puisais’ Taste Education: Through Philosophy and Sociology of Taste.” Presented at the Japanese Society of Food Education 2020 Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 2020. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems: Analysis of Newspapers Under the Emergency Declaration of Japan.” Presented at the Food System Association 2020 Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 2020. (in japanese) [Link]
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Toward a Theory of Food Education using Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach.” Presented at the Japanese Society of Agricultural Economics 2019 Conference, Miyagi, Japan, May 2020. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Mutation du modèle alimentaire japonais: Discours scientifique, réalité et mythe.” Presented at the 13 ème Ecole, Société Française de Nutrition, Paris, France, February 5 2019. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka, and Yoko Niiyama. “Challenges in defining and safeguarding “Washoku” as Japan’s intangible cultural heritage.” Presented at the 7th Asia Euro Conference 2018, Manila, November 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “An interdisciplinary review of Japan’s food education (Shokuiku): Implications for research, policy and practice.” Presented at the 8th International Conference on Food Studies, Vancouver, October 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Epistemological obstacles in linking food education and food system: Through the systematic review of food education research in Japan.” Presented at the 51st Annual Conference of Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Minnesota, July 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Holistic pedagogical comparison of taste education in Japan, France and Italy: Assessing the potential of food education in the context of food heritization.” Presented at the 4th International Convention on Food History and Food Studies, Tours, June 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Achievements and Challenges of Food Education in Agricultural Economics and Implications from Relevant Disciplines Through Interdisciplinary Literature Review.” Presented at the 2018 Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Agricultural Economics, Hokkaido, May 2018. (in japanese)
  • Niiyama, Yoko, Jean-Pierre Poulain, Haruka Ueda, Matilde Labeaut, Laurence Tibere, and Yayoi Kito. “Risk images and their origins of health effects from radioactive substances in food: The case study in France in comparative perspective with Japan.” Presented at the Asia Conference 2018 of Society for Risk Analysis, Osaka, March 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Introduction to Japanese Food Culture: Aesthetics and Hybridity.” Presented at the Invited Lecture for “Anthropology of Food” at ISTHIA, University of Toulouse II Jean-Jaurès, Toulouse, February 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “A comparative analysis of the safeguarding measures for Japanese Washoku and French gastronomy.” Presented at the International Symposium on Living Food: Foodways, Heritage, Health, and the Environment, Paris, February 2018. (in english)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Food must be educationalized? From “institutional” perspective.” Presented at the Invited Lecture for Institution and Governance at Ritumeikan University, Shiga, December 2017. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Achievements and challenges of Japan’s food education (Shokuiku): Through the systematic review in agricultural economics.” Presented at the 7th Asian Food Study Conference, Seoul, November 2017. (in english)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Food cultures in Japan and France: Washoku, gastronomy and food heritages.” Presented at the 1st Invited Lecture for Area Studies Course at Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, November 2017. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Food education: Who owes whom? From Japan-Franco comparative perspective.” Presented at the 2nd Invited Lecture for Area Studies Course at Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, November 2017. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Defining the interdisciplinarity of food education.” Presented at the 7th International Advisers Conference for Global Survivability Studies Program, Kyoto, October 2017. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “Towards the pedagogisation of gastronomy: Through a Japan-France comparative food cultural analysis.” Presented at the 2017 Summer University of Food and Drink Studies, Tours, September 2017. (in english)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Food education: Who owes whom?” Presented at the Invited Lecture by Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, July 2017. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka, and Yoko Niiyama. “Towards redefining “Washoku”: Implications from French “repas gastronomique des français” and the “cité de la gastronomie” project.” Presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Food System, Fukuoka, June 2017. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “From ad hoc-ness to coherency: Taste education and food curiosity as departure points for an evidence-based food education model.” Presented at the 5th Annual Conference of Society of Japanese Shokuiku, Ehime, May 2017. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “A comparative analysis of systems for promoting taste education in Japan, France, and Italy: Suggestions for Japan’s Food Education (Shokuiku).” Presented at the 3rd Future Leaders Global Workshop on Social Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment (FLGW), Kyoto, March 2017. (in english)
  • Ueda, Haruka. “How do kids learn about food? Towards development of a sensory-based food education program.” Presented at the 6th International Advisers Conference for Global Survivability Studies Program, Kyoto, January 2017. (in english)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “A comparative analysis of systems for promoting taste education in Japan, France, and Italy: Suggestions for Japan’s food education.” Presented at the 66th Annual Conference of Society of Regional Agri-forestry Economics, Osaka, October 2016. (in japanese)
  • Ueda, HARUKA. “Impact evaluation of a school-based food education intervention on cognitive and attitudinal aspect of children’s dietary habits: A case study of a sensory education program “Leçon de Gout”.” Presented at the 2016 Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Food System, Tokyo, June 2016. (in japanese)
Misc. Articles
  • Ueda, Haruka. “On Thematization of Food System in Food Education Research.”Japanese Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics: The Japanese Society of Nutrition and Dietetics 77, no. 2 (2019.2): 65-66. (in japanese)

Experience

YearEducation
1992 Born in Osaka
2015 Bachelor in food sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2017 Master in agricultural economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2017.12 Visiting researcher, ISTHIA, University of Toulouse II Jean-Jaurès (-2019.4)
2019 Ph.D. in agricultural economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2019 Global Survivability Studies, Kyoto University’s Leading Doctoral Inter-Graduate Programme
2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Organization of Social Sciences Research Center For Gastronomic Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University (-2021.3)
2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (-2023.9)
2022.12 Visiting Scholar, Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University(-2023.1)
2023.10 Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
YearAcademic experience