Rendez-vous on Economics: Japan in Transition – Economic Transformations and Structural Vulnerabilities / room 601 & Online / in English without translation

Institut français de recherche sur le Japon – Maison franco-japonaise (Tokyo)

Speaker: UEDA Haruka (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The Univ. of Tokyo)

While Japanese cuisine (washoku) is globally celebrated as a healthy and refined food culture, Japan faces serious social challenges, including one of the highest relative poverty rates among advanced economies, rapid population ageing, and persistent gender inequality. How do these contradictions shape everyday food practices in contemporary Japan? This presentation proposes new concepts such as “food poverty” and “food capability”.

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