Curriculum Vitae

Specially Appointed Professor
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
Shokei Gakuin University
4-10-1 Yurigaoka, Natori-City, Miyagi Prefecture, JAPAN 981-8295
Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University, Japan.
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EDUCATION

2004 Doctoral degree, Department of Sociology, The University of Tokyo , Japan.
1979-83 Doctoral course, Department of Sociology, The University of Tokyo , Japan.
1979 M.A., Department of Sociology, The University of Tokyo .
1977 B.A., Department of Sociology, The University of Tokyo .

EMPLOYMENT

2020- Specially Appointed Professor, Shokei Gakuin University, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences.
2000-2020 Professor, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters.
1997-2000 Professor, Tohoku University, Faculty of Arts and Letters.
1992-97 Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Faculty of Arts and Letters.
1987-92 Associate Professor, Tohoku University, College of General Education.
1984-87 Lecturer, Tohoku University, College of General Education.
1983-84 Research Assistant, The University of Tokyo, Department of Sociology.
2004 Visiting Professor, The University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

TEACHING (2020 and 2021 Academic Year)

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS (recent and major positions)

Member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association 2018-
Vice-President of the Japan Sociological Society 2015-18
President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24) 2014-18
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the International Sociological Association’s the XVIII World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama, 2014
President of the Tohoku Sociological Association 2014-2018
President of the Tohoku Sociological Society 2013-15
President of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology 2007-9

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

President of the Japan Center for Climate Change Actions 2015-2019
President of the Japan Network for Climate Change Actions 2010-2019
President of the Miyagi Environmental Life Outreach Network 2007-

AWARDS

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for the Scientific Research (B), grant number 21H00773, 2021-2023.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for the Scientific Research (B), grant number 18H00919, 2018-2020.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for the Scientific Research (B), grant number 15H03406, 2015-2017.
Nippon Life Insurance Foundation, Research Grant for the Environmental Issues, Publication of Scientific Research Results 2015.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for the Publication of Scientific Research Results (issue number 266004), 2014-2015.
Nippon Life Insurance Foundation, Research Grant for the Environmental Issues, 2012-2013.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for the Scientific Research (B), grant number 22243036, 2010-2013.
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Research Grant of Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) program, 2008-2012.
The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (a sub leader).
Abe Fellow 2003, Project title: "Green Energy Politics and Civil Society: Sociological Analysis of Strategies and Effects of Environmental NGOs on the Macro, Meso and Micro level in Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands."
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Research Grant of The 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) program, 2003-2007. The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (a faculty member).

PUBLICATIONS (recent and major works, * in Japanese)

• Books after 2000
• Under Construction
  • *HASEGAWA Koichi and Kaoruko YAMAMOTO, 2017, The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Evacuation from the Disaster-stricken Areas and Possibility of the Energy Shift: Post-quake Recovery Process at a Crossroad (Genpatsu Shinsai to Hinan: Genshiryoku Seisaku no Tenkanwa kanoka), Yuhikaku.
  • *HASEGAWA Koichi, Takehiko HOBO and Hironao OZAKI eds., 2016, Rebirth of Extinction?: Post-quake Recovery Process at a Crossroad (Kiro ni tastu Shinsai Fukko: Chiki no Saisei ka Shometsuka),University of Tokyo Press.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi , 2015, Beyond Fukushima: Toward a Post-nuclear Society, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
  • *FUNABASHI Harutoshi, HASEGAWA Koichi and Nobuko IIJIMA, 2012, Sociology on Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities in Rokkasho Village (Kakunenryo Saikurushisetsu no Shakaigaku) Tokyo: Yuhikaku.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi , 2011, Toward a Post-nuclear Society: Greening of Electricity (Datsu-Genshiryoku Shakai he) Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi , 2011, A Choice for a Post-nuclear Society: The Age of New Energy Revolution Revised (Datsu-Genshiryoku Shakai no Sentaku) Tokyo: Shinyo-sha.
  • *KANEKO Isamu and HASEGAWA Koichi eds., 2008, Social Change and Sociology, Social Change Vol. 1, (Koza Shakai Hendo Vol.1 Shakai Hendo to Shakaigaku) Kyoto: Minerva-shobo.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi and YOSHIHARA Naoki eds., 2008, Globalization, Minorities and Civil Society: Perspectives From Asian and Western Cities,, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, HAMA Hideo, FUJIMURA Masayuki and MACHIMURA Takashi, 2007, Sociology: Modernity, Self and Reflexivity (Shakaigaku), Tokyo: Yuhikaku.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2004, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements , Melbourne:Trans Pacific Press. Selected by Nippon Foundation selected by as one of “100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan,” with other well-known books such as by Robert Bellah's Tokugawa Religion.
  • *HASEGAWA Koichi, 2004, Sociology of Social Conflicts (Hunso no Shakaigaku) , Tokyo: The Society for the Promotion of the University of the Air.
  • *HASEGAWA Koichi, 2003, Environmental Movements and the New Public Sphere: The Perspective of Environmental Sociology (Kankyo Undo to Atarashii Kokyoken) Tokyo: Yuhikaku.
  • *HASEGAWA Koichi ed.,2001, Dynamism of Environmental Movement and Policy , Environmental Sociology in Japan Vol. 4 (Kankyou Undo to Seisaku no Dainamizumu, Koza Kankyo Shakaigaku, Vol.4) , Tokyo: Yuhikaku.
  • *IIJIMA Nobuko, TORIGOE Hiroyuki, HASEGAWA Koichi and FUNABASHI Harutoshi eds., 2001, Perspectives of Environmental Sociology , Environmental Sociology in Japan Vol. 1(Kankyou Undo no Pasupekutibu, Koza Kankyo Shakaigaku Vol.1) , Tokyo: Yuhikaku.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi and TAKUBO Yuko, 2001, JCO Criticality Accident and Local Residents: Damages, Symptoms and Changing Attitudes, Data and Analysis of the Results of a Field Survey of Tokai-mura and Naka-machi Residents , Tokyo: Citizen's Nuclear Information Center.
• Papers in English after 2000
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2018, "Continuities and discontinuities of Japan's political activism before and after the Fukushima nuclear accident," David Chiavacci and Julia Obinger eds. Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-emerging from Invisibility, Oxford: Routledge, 115-135.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2017, "Risk culture, risk framing, and nuclear energy dispute in Japan before and after the Fukushima nuclear accident," Kuei-Tien Chou ed. Energy Transition in East Asia: A Social Science Perspective, Oxford: Routledge, 9-27.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2014, “Rethinking Civil Society in Japan: Before and After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster,” M. Mariotti, T. Miyake and A. Revelant eds., Rethinking Nature in Contemporary Japan: Science, Economics, Politics, Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari Publisher, 55-70.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2014, “The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Japan's Civil Society: Context, Reactions and Policy Impacts,”International Sociology, 29-4, 283-301.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2014,“Anti-nuclear Movements in Japan: Before and after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” Kazuhiro UETA and Yukio ADACHI eds., Transition Management for Sustainable Development, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 251-272.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2012,“Facing Nuclear Risks: Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster,” International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 21, 84-91.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2011, “Cultivating Social Diversity and the Role of NGOs/NPOs,” Kunihiro KIMURA ed., Minorities and Diversity, Melborne: Trans Pacific Press, 113-135.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2011,“A Comparative Study of Social Movements for a Post-Nuclear Energy Era in Japan and the U.S.,” in J. Broadbent and V. Brockman eds., East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region, New York: Springer, 63-79.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2010, “Tamito Yoshida: An Unknown Master of Japanese Sociology, International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 19, 126-132.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2010, “Collaborative Environmentalism in Japan” in H. Vinken et al. eds., Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan: Established and Emerging Repertoires, Springer, 84-100.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2008, “Globalization, Minorities and Civil Society,” in HASEGAWA Koichi and YOSHIHARA Naoki eds., Globalization, Minorities and Civil Society: Perspectives From Asian and Western Cities, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 3-20.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, SHINOHARA Chika and Jeffrey Broadbent, 2007, " The Effects of ‘Social Expectation’ on the Development of Civil Society in Japan", Journal of Civil Society 3-2: 179-203.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2005, "The Development of the NGO Activities in Japan: A New Civic Culture and the Institutionalization of Civic Action", in Robert Weller ed. Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia, Oxford: Routledge/Curzon: 110-122.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, 2004, "Environmental Sociology in Japan: Problem, Topics and Major Characteristics", in Gyoergy Szell and Tominaga Ken'ichi eds. The environmental challenges for Japan and Germany: Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang: 77-91.
• Major Paper Presentations in English after 2008

  • "Reframing Environmental Sociology from Downstream Perspective," The ISA Third Forum of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 13, 2016.

  • "Environmental and Risk Awareness after the Fukushima and Tsunami Disaster," The ISA Third Forum of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 11, 2016.

  • "Climate Change Politics in Japan,” International Conference of “Environment and Environmentalism in East Asia,” Banff Center, Banff, Canada, June 4, 2016.

  • "Civil Society and Renewable Energy in Japan,” 2016 NTNU Japan Seminar, Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, April 28, 2016.

  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Beyond Fukushima: The Nuclear Accident and Japan’s Civil Society, “ International Workshop on Genealogy of the Subject, Research Center Genealogy of Today, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, December 2, 2015.

  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “The Effects of ‘Social Expectation’ on the Development of Civil Society in Japan: Beyond Fukushima,” International Conference on Activism in Contemporary Japan: New Ideas, Players and Arenas? , University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, November 7, 2015.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Beyond Fukushima: Nuclear Energy Policy and Civil Society in Japan, “ 5th International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia (ISESEA-5), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, October 31, 2015.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Japan's Environmental Movements: The history, the structure and the limits,” Workshop on “Social Movements in Theory and Practice: Concepts and Experiences from Different Regional Contexts,” The University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, October 24-25, 2014. HASEGAWA Koichi, “Changing Japan’s Civil Society and Advocacy After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” Lecture Series on "Current Political Affairs and Civil Society in Japan" in Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, October 23, 2014.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Changing Civil Society in Japan,” 2014 Japan Update: Political, Economic and Social Change in Australia-Japan Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, October 17, 2014.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Thinking on a Recovering Process from the 3.11 Disaster,” Japanese Thematic Session 1, The XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, July 14, 2014.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Toward a Nuclear Free Society,” Pre-congress Conference: On the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and History of Environmental Problems, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, July 12, 2014.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Toward a Building Real Sustainable Future: Learning from the Great East Japan Earthquake,” The Asia Pacific Sociological Association 2014 Conference, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 15-16, 2014.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Anti-Nuclear Energy Protest after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster,” The Third ISA Conference of the Council of National Associations, Sociology in Times of Turmoil: Comparative Approaches, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, May 13, 2013.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Rethinking on Civil Society in Japan: Before and after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” International Symposium on “Rethinking Nature in Contemporary Japan: Science, Economics, Politics,” Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, February, 25-26, 2013.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: A Sociological Perspective," The 104 American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, August 20, 2012.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Anti-nuclear Activities and Public Awarness in Japan: Before and after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” The ISA 2nd Forum of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1, 2012.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Toward a Post-Nuclear Society: Examining the 3/11 disaster and Nuclear Risks,” Symposium: Towards Long-term Sustainability: Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, April 20, 2012.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Public Perceptions and Citizen's Activism on Nuclear Risks before and after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre: The Disasters of 11th March 2011 ――One Year on, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, UK, March 24, 2012.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Public Perceptions, Attitudes, and Political Culture,” Expert Workshop: Ready or Not? Assessing Recent Changes in Japan’s International Crisis Management Capability, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, October 29, 2011.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Turning to a Post-Nuclear East Asia: Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster,” Korean Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting, Chungnam National University, Daejoen, Korea, June 24, 2011.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, “A Comparative Study of Social Movements for a Post-Nuclear Energy Era in Japan and the U.S., " The XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 17, 2010.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, “Local Volunteers for Climate Change Actions toward Sustainable Learning Community,” The XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 15, 2010.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi, "Overview of Japanese Sociology from the Eye of Public Sociology" Tohoku University and National University of Singapore the Joint Forum on Sociology and Social Stratification Study, Inequalities and Disparities in Globalized Asia, , National University of Singapore, February 18, 2009.

• • HASEGAWA Koichi and Jeffrey Broadbent, "Locality, Idealism and Profitability as Triggers in Green Energy Movements," 7th World Wind Energy Conference 2008, Kingstone College, Canada June 25, 2008.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, "Local Environmental Movement and Local Governance for “Climate Crisis” 1st ISA Forum of Sociology, University of Barcelona, September 7, 2008.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, "Environmental Sociology in Japan: Overview and the Next Targets," The International Symposium on East Asian Environmental Sociology, Hosei University, October 4, 2008.
  • HASEGAWA Koichi, "Local Governance and Collaborative Process for “Climate Crisis”, 6th East Asian Sociologists’ Conference, Seoul National University, October 11, 2008.