Area of Research

• Research of urban bottom people; yoseba (day laborer's district), homelessness in Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, and squatter and homelessness in Metro Manila, Philippines

• Research of Japanese modernization; the buraku problem, the mental structure of soldier in Asia-Pacific War, and the life history of a craftsman of marquetry in Kanazawa 

 

        Content of Research

• Sociology of urban bottom people, which aims to study yoseba (day laborer's district), homelessness in modern Japan and vagrancy in the pre-war period, to study squatter and homelessness in Metro Manila from the standpoint of international comparison, and finally to construct a theory on the global city in the developing country focusing on the bottom people.

        Key words: urban bottom people, vagrancy, globalization  

• Sociology of Japanese modernization, which aims to study the buraku problem, the mental structure of soldier and the life history of a craftsman of marquetry in Kanazawa City focusing on the impact of modernization to the ordinary people and to consider its meaning in contemporary Japanese society.  

        Key words: modernization, Japanese soldier, burakumin, craftsman