Staff Members
Academic Qualifications
- MSc in Ethnobotany, University of Kent (2005)
- PhD in Ethnobiology, University of Kent (2012)
Research Keywords
Umami, taste, Globalization of food, food culture, food ecology, Thailand, England, Japan
Publications (English publications only)
- 2018
- "We can taste but others cannot: Umami as exclusively Japanese concept", Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity, Nancy Stalker (ed.), Oxford University Press (2018)
- 2017
- "A New Collaboration Inisiative for Sustainable Development Research" (With Akira Takagi, Hideaki Ohgaki, and Yasuyuki Kono), Asia Pacific Tech Monitor, Vol.34, No.2,pp. 37-42 (2017)
- 2015
- "Research Administration in Japan: KURA URAs Frontline: Japanese URA's Experience with ASEAN"（With Ayako Fujieda）, NCURA Magazine Vol. XLVII, No.4, pp.37-39, (2015)
- 2014
- "The Cultural Cognition of Taste Term Conflation" (With Roy F. Ellen), The Senses & Society, Vol.9, No.1, pp.72-91, (2014)
- 2012
- "Glutamate Perception, Soup Stock and the Concept of Umami: The Ethnography, Food Ecology and History of Dashi in Japan", Ecology of Food and Nutrition,Vol.51 pp.329-345, (2012)
Presentations
- 2017
- "Analysis on Research Collaboration Status of Japan and Southeast Asia and its History", The Tenth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Thailand, 2017
- 2016
- " 'Glocalizing' Taste: Umami as an Example and Perception of Health", The 6th Asian Food Study Conference (AFSC) Exchange and Dynamism of Food Culture in Asia-Past,Present and Future, Ritsumeikan University, 2016.10.
- 2014
- "To Eat or Not to Eat: MSG Consumption and Social Distinction", Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) Conference: Transforming Societies, Thailand, 2014.
- 2014
- "Umami as an Exclusively Japanese Concept: Culinary Nationalism in Contemporary Japanese Society", Devouring Japan Conference, USA, 2014.
- 2013
- "Food Security and Biocultural Diversity in Home and Community Gardens in Nablus", The 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, UK, 2013.
- 2011
- "Ethnographic Traces of Taste", 110th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Conference, Canada, 2011.
- 2010
- "Umami and its Place in Japanese Culture: an Embodiment of Taste", 109th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Conference, USA, 2010.
- 2010
- "From Konbu (Laminaria japonica) to MSG: Umami and its Commercial Transformation", Potent Substances: on the Boundaries of Food and Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK, 2010.
- 2010
- "Umami and its Place in Contemporary Japanese Culture",British Association For Japanese Studies (BAJS) Triennial Conference 2010, UK, 2010.
