HASEGAWA Koichi is a specially appointed professor of Shokei Gakuin University and a professor emeritus of Tohoku University. He is a member of the Excecutive Committee of the International Sociological Association. He served as a chair of the local organizing committee of the International Sociological Association’s World Congress of Sociology to be held in Yokohama, 2014 and a former chair of the International Liaison Committee of Japan Sociological Society. He was a former president of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology. He contributes many articles on civil society, social movements, social change and environmental sociology. His major work includes Beyond Fukushima: Toward a Post-nuclear Society (Trans Pacific Press 2015. The Japanese version and the Korean language version were published) and A Choice for Post-Nuclear Society (Shin-yo-sha revised 2011, 1996, written in Japanese). His book, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Trans Pacific Press 2004), is selected by Nippon Foundation as one of “100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan,”List of 100 Books with other well-known books such as by Robert Bellah's Tokugawa Religion. He received his Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in 2004. Away from work, Koichi is a father, an essayist, and a Haiku poet.
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HASEGAWA Koichi

Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
SHOKEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY
4-10-1 Yurigaoka, Natori City,
Miyagi Prefecture, JAPAN, 981-1295
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