Authorship：Principal investigator 

researchmap

Grant amount：\4160000 （ Direct Cost: \3200000 、 Indirect Cost：\960000 ）

In Europe and United States seafood sustainability became a big issue and there were a close relationship between the sustainable seafood movement and the sustainable food movement. The awareness regarding seafood crisis as well as seafood sustainability is still low in Japan but some Japanese chefs are raised their awareness regarding sustainable seafood.

researchmap

Grant amount：\4290000 （ Direct Cost: \3300000 、 Indirect Cost：\990000 ）

In recent years, as a result of globalization, local food movements such as"Local Production for Local Consumption", CSA(Community Supported Agriculture), AMAP(Association pour le maintien d'une Agriculture Paysanne), and "Circuit Court"(shorter distribution networks), have spread both at home and abroad. In the Western countries, too, a revaluation of local food systems has also been progressing.
In this study, based on a survey on the trends of local food movements in Europe and the U. S. A. and case studies from around Japan, issues other than safety and peace of mind, security and the environment were addressed. In particular, issues of social relationships concerning food, and social justice relating to labor which supports food and agricultural systems were examined and we verified the significance of the local food system in Japan.

researchmap

Authorship：Principal investigator 

researchmap

Grant amount：\19890000 （ Direct Cost: \15300000 、 Indirect Cost：\4590000 ）

From 2007 to 2009, we held symposiums and workshops on "Shikoku-Henro and the Pilgrimages of the World". We had 31 presentations in three years, all of which were published in the proceedings of our project. We researched Shikoku-Henro, Kumano-Sankei, and Saigoku-Junrei in Japan, and 10 pilgrimages in other parts of the world, which cover the Christian world-eastern parts of the ancient Mediterranean, medieval Europe, medieval and early modern Spain, and medieval and modern England-, ancient Greece, and Asia-medieval China, contemporary Korea, medieval Mongol, medieval Egypt, and medieval Java. According to our comparative study, the common feature of the Japanese pilgrimages and the Christian pilgrimages is that medieval and early modern people wished for both their spiritual salvation in the other world and benefits in this world.

researchmap