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      NAGAI, Yoshikazu

      Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University

      3-3-35 Suita-shi, Osaka, 564-8680 JAPAN

 

     

 

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Current Status:

    Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University

    major: Urban Sociology

    current research interest:

           Study of Social History of Mass Culture in Modern Japan

           Study of Social Control and Public Orders

 

Vitae:

    (education)

    4/1979-3/1983  Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

                   B.A. in Philosophy (major: Sociology)

    4/1983-3/1985  Graduate School of Kyoto University: Master course

                   M.A. in Sociology

    4/1985-3/1988  Graduate School of Kyoto University: Ph.D.course

 

    (employment)

    4/1988-3/1990  Assistant Instructor of Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters

    4/1990-3/1992  Lecturer of Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan

                   Faculty of Education

    4/1992-3/1993  Associate Professor of Osaka Kyoiku University,

                   Faculty of Education

    4/1993-3/1999  Associate Professor of Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

                   Faculty of Sociology

    4/1999-present  Professor of Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

                   Faculty of Sociology

 

Major Publications:

    (books)

    8/1991  Shako Dansu to Nihonjin

            (The Social History of the Taxi-Dance Hall in Modern Japan)

            Shobunsha, Tokyo, Japan, 299pages.

    9/1994  Nippon Dansu Monogatari

            (The Life-histories of Three Pioneers of the Ballroom Dance in Japan)

            Libroport, Tokyo, Japan, 232pages.

    5/2000  Tantei no Shakai-shi 1 : Biko-sha tachi no Machikado

            (The Shadows on the Street Corners: The Social History of Detectives vol.1)

            Seori-shobo, Yokohama, Japan, 294pages.

    4/2002  Fuzoku Eigyo Torishimari

            (The Regulation of the Entertainment Businesses)

            Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 254pages.

    7/2003  Nankai Hawks ga atta koro : Yakyu fan to Pa-rigu no bunkashi

            (Days of Nankai Hawks : The Social History of Baseball Fans and the Pacific Baseball League)

            Kinokuniya-shoten, Tokyo, Japan, 328pages. ( with Shinfya Hashizume )

              Reprinted  in 2010 Kawade-shobo-shinsha, Kawade Bunko.

@10/2008 Hawks no 70nen: Sekibetsu to Saikai no Kyufu

            (70 years history of Hawks)

           Softbank Creative, Tokyo, Japan, 288pages.

@2/2011 Supai, Bakugeki, Kanshi-kamera: Hito ga hito o shinjinai to iu koto

            (Spy, Bombing, Surveillance Camera: The Social History of Technology of eSuspicionf)

            Kawade-shobo-shinsha, Tokyo, Japan, 236pages.

@9/2011 Minami Saori ga ita koro

            (40 years of gCynthiah and Okinawa)

           Asahi-Shinbun Shuppan, Asahi Shinsho, Tokyo, Japan, 254pages.

@8/2015 Teihon Fuzoku Eigyo Torishimari

            (The Regulation of the Entertainment Businesses, revised edition)

            Kawade-shobo-shinsha, Tokyo, Japan, 337pages.

 

 

 

    (editing books)

    7/1993  Kodomo to iu Retorikku: Muku no Yuwaku

            ('Child' as a Rhetoric of Social Control)

            Seikyusha, Tokyo, Japan (edited with Nakagawa,N.)

            Kinokuniya Kinoppy e-version available

    12/1996  Joho-ka to Chiiki-shakai

            (The Informatization and the Local Communities)

            Fukumura-shuppan, Tokyo, Japan (edited with Y.Ohishi, I.Yoshioka, and Yanagisawa,S.)

    5/2000  Sengo Nihon no Taishu-bunka

            (Japanese Massculture after World War II)

            Showado, Kyoto, Japan (edited with M.Ukai and Fujimoto, K.)

              Translated into Chinese and published in 2010.

    4/2002  Kiso Shakaigaku 3rd edition

            (Basic Sociology 3rd edition)

            Fukumura-shuppan, Tokyo, Japan (edited with S.Katagiri and Yamamoto, Y.)

    4/2006  Kiso Shakaigaku revised edition

            (Basic Sociology revised edition)

            Sekaisisosha, Kyoto, Japan (edited with S.Katagiri and Yamamoto, Y.)

              Translated into Chinese and published in 2008.

    8/2014  Senryoki Seikatsu Sesoshi Shiryo I : Haisen to Kurashi

             (Life and Society of Occupied Japan I: Study of Magazines and Journals of Gordon W. Prange Collection)

            Shinfyo-sha, Tokyo, Japan (supervised by Taketoshi Yamamoto).

    6/2015  Senryoki Seikatsu Sesoshi Shiryo II : Fuzoku to Ryuko

             (Life and Society of Occupied Japan II: Study of Magazines and Journals of Gordon W. Prange Collection)

            Shinfyo-sha, Tokyo, Japan (supervised by T. Yamamoto, edited with S. Matsuda).

 

 

 

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