Tomoyuki Kuwaharada

1. Major

Area studies (UK, EU)
Environment, Labour, Trade
Agricultural policy

2. Academic Career

3. Professional Career

4. Research Achievements

Peer-reviewed, Invited papers and others

• Kuwaharada T. (2023) " Perspectives for Realising to Eusure Sustainability of the EU’s Economy and Society and Implications for Japan: Examinations of Agriculture and Food Fields as an Example", EU Studies in Japan, 43, pp.96-120. (Peer-reviewed)
• Kuwaharada T. (2019) "Considerations of Agriculture related topics following the U.K.’s leaving of the European Union", World Economic Review, 63(2), pp.67-80. (Peer-reviewed)

• Kuwaharada, T. (2024) “Research Review: Policy and Research Trends on Enhancing Environmental Sustainability in the European Union”, PRIMAFF Review, (118), pp. 8-9. (Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2023) "Transition to a more environmentally friendly food system in Europe - encompassing economic and social sustainability", PRIMAFF Review, (112), pp.4-5. (Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2022) "Realities and challenges of foreign labour in the European agricultural sector - Importance of migrant labour and efforts to resolve challenges in the EU agricultural sector", International cooperation of agriculture & forestry, 45(3), pp.35-41. (Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2022) "EU’s organic farming goals and strategies to achieve them - enhancing medium- and long-term food security by balancing sustainability and productivity", JATAFF Journal, 10(7), pp.52-58.(Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2022) "Food security and the foreign agricultural workforce in the UK - in the light of new immigration and labor policies and the situation in Ukraine", PRIMAFF Review, (108), pp.8-9. (Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2021) "The situation and challenges of organic farming in Europe, and the expansion strategy of the European Union: Measures taken by EU toward balanced growth and developments, and the case of Germany", Journal of the Agricultural Society of Japan, (1682), pp.51-56. (Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2021) "Feasibilities of Targets for Organic Farming and Agricultural Chemicals, and the Trade Implications of the European Union’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies for 2030", PRIMAFF Review, (101),  pp.4-5. (Invited)
• Kuwaharada T. (2021) "Policy Measures toward the compatibility between sustainability and economic recovery and growth in the European Union -A European Green Deal, Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity strategy for 2030-", Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-26.
• Kuwaharada T. (2009) "Analyses on Pattern of Industrial Location and Trade in East Asia" (postgraduate dissertation in the University of Cambridge, U.K.)
• Kuwaharada T. (2008) "Enhanced Monetary Cooperation in East Asia and Perspectives for Monetary Union" (postgraduate dissertation in the University of York, U.K.)

Other recent publications

• Kuwaharada, T. (2025) “Challenges Surrounding the United Kingdom’s Agriculture and Food Sectors – Focusing on the Balance between Environment and Production, and on Labour Issues –”, FY 2024 Annual Country Report (Project Research: Agricultural Policy and Food Supply and Demand in Major Countries), No. 10, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp. 1–18.
• Kuwaharada, T. (2024). Building a sustainable and stable society together with foreign workers: The case of the United Kingdom. In K. Horiguchi (Ed.), International labour mobility after COVID-19 and the competitiveness of Japanese agriculture (pp. 67–86). Waseda University.
• Kuwaharada, T. (2024) “Legislative Trends to Enhance Environmental Sustainability in the EU’s Agriculture and Food Sectors – Amid Growing Interest in Agricultural Production and Food Security –”, FY 2023 Annual Country Report (Project Research: Agricultural Policy and Food Supply and Demand in Major Countries), No. 7, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp. 1–14.
• Kuwaharada T. (2023) "The EU's new Common Agricultural Policy - new policy developments towards a transition to a sustainable food system-", Annual Country Report, (1). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-19.
• Kuwaharada T. (2022) "Labor and environment in supply chain resilience: food security and the development of new agricultural and environmental policies in the UK", Annual Country Report, (9). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-21.
• Kuwaharada T. (2021) "Policy Measures toward the compatibility between sustainability and economic recovery and growth in the European Union -A European Green Deal, Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity strategy for 2030-", Annual Country Report, (5). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-22.
• Kuwaharada T. (2021) "Developing new agricultural policies of U.K.’s toward the compatibility between ensuring sustainability and enhancing productivity. following the enforcement of the Agriculture Act 2020", Annual Country Report, (5). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-22.
• Kuwaharada T. (2020) "New trends of trade, immigration and agricultural policies of the U.K. following the leaving of the European Union, Annual Country Report, (1). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-15.
• Kuwaharada T. (2019) "Analyses of labour market and, immigration, trade and agricultural policies of the U.K. following the leaving of the European Union, Annual Country Report, (10). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-26.
• Kuwaharada T. (2019) "The variety of evaluations and divergence of future directions of decoupled income support under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture among devolved countries in the U.K. following the leaving of the European Union -Cross country comparisons among devolved countries-", Annual Country Report, (10). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-9.
• Kuwaharada T. (2018) "Changes of Policy environment and Commercial terms in the area of Agriculture and Food following U.K.'s leaving of the European Union", Annual Country Report, (6). Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-49.
• Kuwaharada T. (2018) "Fiscal measures for investment in agricultural machineries and equipment in the U.K.", Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, pp.1-8.

5. Presentations at Academic Conferences and others

• Kuwaharada, T. "Perspectives for ensuring sustainability of the EU’s economy and society and implications for Japan: Examinations of agriculture and food fields as an example”, The 43rd Annual Conference of European Union Studies Association Japan, November 6 2022, Tokyo Keizai University (Tokyo, Japan)
• Kuwaharada, T. "Discussions for Policies after Brexit in the UK in the area of agriculture, food and related trade, and analyses of impacts on productivity and business structure” , The 77th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society of International Economics, October 14 2018, Kwansei Gakuin University (Hyogo, Japan)
• Kuwaharada, T. "Discussions for Policies after Brexit in the UK in the area of agriculture, food and related trade", The Japan Society of International Economics, Kanto, May 19 2018, Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan)
• Kuwaharada, T. "EU's efforts to ensure sustainability -Towards ensuring sustainability in the agriculture and food area”, The Annual Symposium of PRIMAFF (Policy Research Institute of the MAFF), February 8, 2022, PRIMAFF (Tokyo, Japan)

6. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Coinvestigator, “Multilayering of foreign workers and human resource management for agricultural organisations”
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027

Coinvestigator, “International migration of labour and competitiveness of receiving immigrations of Japanese agriculture after the COVID-19 pandemic”
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024

7. Teaching experience

• Sep, 2019 – Present   Japanese Economy (in English)  (Aoyama Gakuin University, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication) 15 series of lectures
• Sep, 2020 – Present  Economic Surveys of Advanced Countries A II (British Economy)  (Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Economics) 15 series of lectures (1st term)
• Apr, 2020 – Present   Economic Surveys of Advanced Countries A I (British Economy)  (Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Economics) 15 series of lectures (2nd term)
• Sep, 2024 – Present   Japanese Economy (Aoyama Gakuin University, Graduate School of International Politics, Economics and Communication) 15 series of lectures  (2nd term)
• Jul, 2019   Special Lecture in International Economics, UK's leaving of the European Union -Changes of Policy environment and Commercial terms in the area of Agriculture and Food- (Faculty of Law, Toyo University)

8. Academic Societies

• The Japan Society of International Economics
• European Union Studies Association
• The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan
• The Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies

9. Others

• 2024 Participated in the “US–Japan Climate Smart Farmer-to-Farmer Tour” programme, hosted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
• 2019  “The Future of Agriculture” programme hosted by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (invited by the Government of Federal Republic of Germany) (Berlin, Hannover)
• 2014-2016 Delegation from the Japanese Government to India. Established bilateral corporation and policy dialogue framework in the field of Agriculture and Food.
• 2004 OECD “Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government” (Paris, France)
  (Established the meeting and attended as the delegation of the Japanese Government) (other participants: World Bank, European Commission, 20countries)

[Last updated: Oct. 15, 2025]