Research and Development Initiatives-4

Tomoko TANJI

Research and Development Leader（Co-PI）

Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Business, School of Food Industrial Sciences,Miyagi University

Born in Tokyo in 1970. She received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from the department of tourism at the college of sociology at Rikkyo University and her master’s degree in sociology from the graduate school of sociology at Rikkyo University. She completed the coursework for the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Tourism at Rikkyo University without submitting a dissertation.
In 2001, she was appointed lecturer in the Department of Tourism at Osaka Meijo University. In 2005, she joined the Department of Tourism and Culture at Kawamura Gakuen Women’s University, where she served successively as lecturer, associate professor, and professor. Since April 2022, she has held her current position at Miyagi University.
She served as a board member of the Japan Society for Tourism and Hospitality Education and the Japan Institute of Tourism Research and currently serves as auditor of the Japan Society for Foodservice Management. Her areas of specialization are food service studies and hospitality management.
Since the 1990s, she has researched environmental management in the food service and accommodation industries. Recently, her research has focused on the role of food in driving economic recovery in post-disaster tourism destinations and on industry-government-academia collaboration in the tourism and food service sectors.
In this project, she collaborates with Shima City and Higashimatsushima City to develop a regional supply chain connecting locally produced food resources from production and processing to distribution and final provision by service businesses, such as restaurants and accommodations. The supply chain is designed by incorporating gastronomy and environmental sustainability perspectives.