Profile

Education:

Waseda University-Japan, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences: Sociology Major (Doctor's Course ); specialization Urban Sociology and Community Studies, April 1975-March 1981 (Unit acquisition)

Waseda University-Japan, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences: Sociology Major (Master’s Course); specialization Urban Sociology and Community Studies, April 1973-March 1975: degree ‘Master of Literature’. Thesis “Reconsidering Urban Communities from the Viewpoint of Inhabitants’ Problem-solving Activities”

Waseda University-Japan, School of Political Science and Economics; specialization Political Science, April 1969-March 1973: degree ‘Bachelor of Political Science’.

Work Experience:

Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Sociology Major)

Department of Sociology, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

• Professor, April 1994- current.
  
• Associate Professor, April 1989- March 1994.
  
• Assistant Professor, April 1986- March 1989.
  
• Research Associates, April 1983- March 1986.
  

Waseda Institute for Sustainable Community and Risk Management, Waseda University

• Director, April 2000- current
  
  

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan

• Visiting Lecturer of Sociology of Disasters, April 2003- current.
  
• Visiting Lecturer of Urban Sociology, April 1981-March 1983
  
  

Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

• Visiting Lecturer of Urban and Environmental Sociology, April 2002-March 2003
  
  

Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

• Visiting Lecturer of Regional and Community Studies, April 2000-March 2001
  
  

Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

• Visiting Research Fellow, April 1991-March 1992
  
  

Other Universities

• Visiting Lecturer of Urban Sociology, Department of Applied Sociology, Shikoku Gakuin University (Kagawa Prefecture)
  
• Visiting Lecturer of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Hirosaki University (Aomori Prefecture)
  

etc.

Institute for Future Technology (IFTECH), Tokyo, Japan

(Institute, organized as a foundation authorized by the Primer Minister of Japan)

• Researcher of Disaster Studies; specialization: Disasters’ Impact on Communities, Community Response to Disasters and Disaster Warnings, Disaster Prevention System, Jan 1980- March 1983
  

Experience as Councilors and Committee Members
of Government Bodies and Public Institutions:

Chairman of Regional Internationalization Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, which made Earthquake Survival Manual for Foreigners a few years ago and which examines how to deal with the difficulties of everyday life foreigners face and fear strongly in Tokyo and how to support foreigners to get the necessary information in the event of disaster.

• Member of Committee:
  

Study Committee on Social Planning for Disaster Reconstruction Process after the coming Earthquake, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office (Disaster Prevention Division)

• Member of Committee:
  

Study Committee on Social Planning for Disaster Reconstruction Process after the coming Earthquake, Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office (Disaster Prevention Division)

• Member of Committee:
  

Judging Committee for the Japan Award of Excellent Disaster Prevention Activities, Fire and Disaster management Agency (the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) and Institute for Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness

• Adviser:
  

Adviser of Japan Women’s Fire Prevention Club:

The Japan Fire Prevention Association, Tokyo, Japan

• Keynote Speaker and Adviser:
  

Central Conferences on Disaster Preparedness and Social Safety,

Institute for Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness, and the Fire Defense Board in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

• Keynote Speaker and Adviser:
  

Conferences on Stress Management for Disaster Prevention Activities,

Nuclear Safety Technology Center, Tokyo, Japan

Professional Associations:

Kanto Society for Urbanology (Urban Studies)

• Vice-President, May 2001 - current
  
• Director, Nov 1988 - current
  
  

Japan Society for Urbanology (Urban Studies)

• Director, May 1997 - May 2001
  
  

Japan Association of Regional and Community Studies

• Director (Chairman of Editorial Board), May 1998 - May 2002
  
• Director, May 2004 - current
  
  

Japan Association of Urban Sociology

• Director, Sep 2003 - current
  
  

Others

• Member of the Japan Sociological Society
  
• Member of Japan Institute of Social Safety Science
  
• Member of Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies
  
• Member of International Sociological Association
  
• (Temporary membership of the International Research Committee on Disasters 1983-85, 1998-2001)
  

Research Interests:

• Long trends and development processes of sociological theories and researches on disaster studies
  

Community support systems in the social processes of disaster impact, restoration and reconstruction period and for the community’s disaster prevention activities Community support

Others