Position Professor
Graduate School Korean Linguistics and Social Studies
Department Korean Studies

Career

March 2007: Ph.D., Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
April 2018: Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

Research Areas

Welfare Sociology

1) Comparative Welfare State Theory

Analyzing the history and current status of social issues and social policies in Asian countries and regions, as well as their characteristics and challenges, from an international comparative perspective.

2) Contemporary Korean Society

Analyzing social changes and prospects in Korea, based on keywords such as employment instability, declining birth rates and aging population, and multiculturalism, from an international comparative perspective.