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• Tatsuya Mitsuda is Assistant Professor at Keio University, Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan.
  
  He was educated at Keio, Bonn and Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in History.
  
  His broad research and teaching interests span the intertwined social and cultural histories of food and animals, with particular reference to the German and Japanese experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  
  His most recent publications include: “Entangled Histories: Germany Veterinary Medicine, c. 1770-1900”, Medical History 61/1 (2017), 25-47 and “‘Sweets Reimagined’: The Construction of Confectionary Identities, 1890-1930”, in Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walvarens (eds), Feeding Japan: The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
  
  Dr Mitsuda is currently writing a book on the history of sweets and snacking in Japan and a monograph on the history of infectious animal diseases in modern Germany.

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• <Research>
  I am involved in the following four research projects:
  
  1. Meat in Germany 1700-1900
  2. Infectious animal diseases in Germany, 1750-1930
  3. Sweets and snackig in Japan, 1850-1980
  4. Imperial dimensions of meat consumption in Japan, 1890-1930
  
  <Teaching>
  My teaching spans topics close to my research field and takes place in a variety of formats, from individual supervisions to lectures with 100-200 students. Third and fourth year students - as well as overseas students - with a research interest in either food or animals are welcome to discuss with me dissertation projects.
  
  1. Lecture: History of Food (Liberal Arts)
  2. Lecture: History of Animals (Liberal Arts)
  3. International Center: History of Animals in Japan (Overseas students)
  4. Seminar: History of Food (English)
  5. Seminar: History of Animals (English)
  6. Research Seminar: History of Food (Japanese)
  7. Academic Skills
  8. Thesis supervision (on topics related to the history of animals or food)

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• 2007.10

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  2009.03

  Research Associate, Clare College, Cambridge

• 2009.04

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  Present

  Keio University, Faculty of Economics, Assistant Professor

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

• 1998.10

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  2000.07

  Bonn University, Faculty of Philosophy, History

  Germany, University, Other, Master's course

• 2000

  Keio University, Graduate School of Economics

  Graduate School, Other

• 2000.09

  Keio University, Faculty of Laws, Department of Politics

  University, Graduated

• 2002.09

  Cambridge University, Faculty of History

  Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

• 2002.10

  Cambridge University, Faculty of History

  Graduate School, Other, Doctoral course

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

• BA (Politics), Keio University, 2000.09

• MPhil, Cambridge University, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, 2002.10

• PhD, Cambridge University, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, 2007.10

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• Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese history

• Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Europe and America

• Humanities & Social Sciences / Area studies

• Modern European Social and Cultural History

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• Europe Japan Germany Animals Food Meat　Horses Confectionary

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• "Snacking, Health, Modernity: Moralizing Confections in Japan, 1890-1930", in Angela Ki Che Leung and Melissa L. Caldwell (eds), Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia

  Tatsuya Mitsuda, University of Hawaii Press, 2019.09

• "'Vegetarian Nationalism': Critiques of Meat Eating for Japanese Bodies, 1880-1938", in Michelle T. King (ed), Culinary Nationalism in Asia

  MITSUDA Tatsuya, Bloomsbury, 2019.07

• 飼う―生命の教養学１３

  光田 達矢, 慶應義塾大学出版会, 2018.07

  Scope: ペットしか見えない都市空間ができるまでー近代ヨーロッパにおける動物たちの行き（生き）場

• "‘Sweets Reimagined’: The Construction of Confectionary Identities, 1890-1930" in Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walvarens (eds), Feeding Japan: The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk

  MITSUDA Tatsuya, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.05

• "The Politics of Reproduction: Horse Breeding and State Studs in Prussia, 1750-1900" in Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld (eds), Equine Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity, 1700-Present

  MITSUDA Tatsuya, The University of Chicago Press, 2016

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• Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall by Thomas Fleischman (review)

  Mitsuda T.

  Technology and culture （Technology and culture)  63 （ 2 ） 525 - 527 2022

  • Access to Document (DOI)

• Consumed by Sweets: Parents, Children, and Snacking in Modern Japan

  Tatsuya Mitsuda

  The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth （Johns Hopkins University Press)  14 （ 1 ） 63 - 84 2021.02

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

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  This article investigates the interplay between children, sweets, and parents in Japan before and after the Second World War. Focusing on the problems posed by the penny sweet shop and the street sweets it sold to children, it analyzes society's attempts to control and reform the contents of sweets and the practice of snacking. It demonstrates that street sweets served as powerful referents shaping middle-class notions of "proper" confections, how they should be made, with whom they should be shared, and where and when they should be purchased and eaten. It argues that children were formidable consumers who bought less into the nutritional or hygienic value of confections and more into the broader experience of snacking.

• Imperial Bovine Bodies: Rendering Chinese Milk and Meat Fit for German and Japanese Consumption

  Tatsuya Mitsuda

  Asia Pacific Perspectives 16 （ 2 ） 4 - 33 2020.08

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

• Trichinosis revisited: scientific internventions in the assessment of meat and animals in Imperial Germany

  Tatsuya Mitsuda

  Food and Foodways （Food and Foodways)  27 （ 1-2 ） 49 - 73 2019.09

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted,  ISSN  07409710

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  © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article examines the interplay of science, meat, and animals through a reappraisal of the trichinosis outbreaks during a critical period in the development of a meat inspection regime in Imperial Germany. Taking a more domestic approach than previous treatments, it questions why solutions to the problems of this parasitic disease moved from the hands of physicians, who initially called for a model of private protection carried out in the home, and into the hands of veterinarians, who established a model of public inspection centered on abattoirs. Building on previous scholarship, this article reveals how contrasting frameworks of medical and veterinary expertise shaped the debate; explains why self-protection was abandoned in favor of greater state intervention; questions why public slaughterhouses initially struggled to gain favor and then won acceptance; demonstrates why concerns about animal rather than human health were crucial in the establishment of abattoirs; and reveals why the contrasting focus on pork, on the one hand, and pigs, on the other, conditioned measures of prevention. Linking humans and animals, urban and rural society, as well as consumers and producers, this article provides a holistic and complex analysis of how German meat and animal inspection developed in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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• Incapacitated horses, traffic policing and spectator morals in late Victorian London

  MITSUDA Tatsuya

  The Hiyoshi Review of the Humanities 　 33   263 - 288 2018.07

  Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution), Single Work

  Mitsuda 2018 Fallen Horses London.pdf

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• Training horse and rider for war? Equine sport, military use, and the industrialisation of society : Imperial Germany in transnational perspective

  Mitsuda, Tatsuya

  The Hiyoshi review of the humanities （慶應義塾大学日吉紀要刊行委員会)   （ 34 ） 233 - 261 2019

  ISSN  09117210

• Incapacitated horses, traffic policing and spectator morals in late Victorian London

  Mitsuda, Tatsuya

  The Hiyoshi review of the humanities （慶應義塾大学日吉紀要刊行委員会)   （ 33 ） 263 - 288 2018

  ISSN  09117210

• A comparative history of the development of a meat-based society in Germany and Japan

  Mitsuda, Tatsuya

  学事振興資金研究成果実績報告書 （慶應義塾大学)  2017

• The scientization of meat : animals, food, and veterinarians in modern Germany

  Mitsuda, Tatsuya

  科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書 2017

• The re-invention of horsemanship in early modern Europe

  Mitsuda, Tatsuya

  The Hiyoshi review of the humanities （慶應義塾大学日吉紀要刊行委員会)   （ 26 ） 95 - 113 2011

  ISSN  09117210

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• From Colonial Hoof to Metropolitan Table: Imperial Biopolitics and the Commodification of Korean Bovine Bodies

  Tatsuya Mitsuda

  Livestock as Global and Imperial Commodities: Economies, Ecologies and Knowledge Regimes, c. 1500 – present, Commodities of Empire International Workshop, 

  2022.07

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  Symposium, workshop panel (public)

• Towards a nation of beef eaters? Fears, tastes and the edibility of "fresh" meat in Japan, c. 1870-1930

  Tatsuya Mitsuda

  Making East Asian Foods: Technologies and Values, 19th - 20th Centuries, University of Hong Kong, 

  2019.05

• Mapping New Technologies of Slaughter: the ‘Model’ Abattoir in Tsingtao Under German, Japanese, and Chinese Rule, 1898-1930

  MITSUDA Tatsuya

  Closing the Gap – How Technology Changes Spatial Relationships Between Humans and Animals (Shanghai) , 

  2018.03

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  Oral presentation (general), Nordic Centre

• Bovine imperialism: Japanese livestock, the threat of animal diseases, and the supply of ‘safe’ meat and cattle in East Asia, c. 1890-1940

  MITSUDA Tatsuya

  Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia (Cambridge, MA, USA) , 

  2017.05

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  Symposium, workshop panel (public), Harvard Law School

• Imposing confectionary identities in Japan, 1890-1935

  MITSUDA Tatsuya

  Culinary Nationalism in Asia (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) , 

  2017.03

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  Oral presentation (invited, special), Department of History, University of North Carolina

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• The Globalization of the Livestock Trade and Animal Health in Comparative Perspective

  2021.04

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  2024.03

  Principal investigator

• A comparative history of meat in Germany and Japan: production, safety, society

  2018.04

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  2023.03

  MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

• A comparative history of meat-based societies: production, security and diet in modern Germany and Japan

  2018.04

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  2022.03

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Tatsuya Mitsuda, Research grant, No Setting

• Medicalization of meat in modern Germany: animals, food, veterinarians

  2014.04

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  2018.03

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Principal investigator

• From adults to children: the production, popularization and consumption of chocolate in Japan

  2014.04

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  2015.03

  Keio University, Keio Gijuku Academic Development Funds, Research grant, Principal investigator

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• INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT B

  2021

• INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT A

  2021

• HISTORY

  2021

• GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR B

  2021

• GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR A

  2021

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

• Association for the Study of Food & Society (ASFS), 

  2017.08

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  Present

• Japanese Society for Veterinary History, 

  2014.10

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  Present

• Human Animal Relationship Society

  　

• Veterinary History Society

  　

• Social and Economic History Society (Japan)

  　

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• 2017.05

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  Present

  オブザーバー, 味の素食の文化センター　食の文化フォーラム

• 2017.04

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  Present

  評議員, 日本獣医史学会

• 2016.03

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  Present

  常任理事, ヒトと動物の関係学会