Yoshimichi Sato

I will briefly describe the history of Japanese sociology and the Japan Sociological Society (JSS) from my perspective because it is beyond my capacity to cover all the details of their history over more than one hundred years. Foundations with the aim of improving Japanese society The JSS was established in 1924, but Japanese sociologists had started conducting sociological research before then. As Auguste Comte conceived...

I participated in an international symposium on “Today's Trends of Global Migration in Japan and Indonesia” in Bali on October 29. This symposium was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, which I direct. It had two Japanese speakers (including me) and two Indonesian speakers. While the Japanese speakers talked about transnational migration -- immigration to Japan in particular -- the Indonesian speakers...