Researcher Database

（Last updated : 2023-12-07 22:32:44）

TAKEOKA TORU

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology

Academic background
1.		│ The University of Tokyo │ PhD

Business career
1.	2022/04/01 ～	Lecturer │ │
2.	2021/10/01 ～ 2023/09/30	Lecturer │ │
3.	2019/04 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Social Sciences, │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2018/04 ～ 2019/03	Assistant Professor │ Faculty of Letter, Sociology, │ Rikkyo University
5.	2017/04 ～ 2019/03	Contract Assistant Professor │ faculty of letters │ Tokyo University
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Research activities
1.		British Association for Japanese Studies
2.		American Sociological Association
3.		International Sociolgoical Association
4.		JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF REAGIONAL AND COMMUNITY STUDIES
5.		JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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Present specialized field
Sociology

Books
1.	2020/03	What is it like to walk through Kabukicho? │ ,pp.155-190 (Co-authored)
2.	2020/03	Changing Cities │ (Co-authored)
3.	2020/01	Sex Work" in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton eds) │ ,pp.179-188 (Co-authored)
4.	2017/02	Ikinobiru Toshi: Shinjuku Kabukicho no Shakaigaku (Surviving City: Sociology of Kabukicho, Shinjuku) │
5.	2016/06	Why can overpricing persist in Kabukicho red light district? │

Papers
1.	2023/03/25	'Welfare's Defeat' and Stigma │ ,pp.117-117 (Sole-authored)
2.	2022/09/20	Survey on Aspiration Conducted by Robert K. Merton │ Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review │ ,pp.137-147 (Sole-authored)
3.	2021/12/08	In Search of Solid Urban Argument (You Probably Think It’s Boring): Wild, Academic, or Sociological │ (Sole-authored)
4.	2013/03	"The Life" on the Street: Law and Economy of Japanese "Pimps" │ Global Urban Studies │ ,pp.25-40
5.	2012/09	Ambiguity of Visible "Disorder": A Case Study of Street Pimps │ The Annual Review of Sociology │ ,pp.132-143
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/12/06	Why does a red-light district exist in the era of neoliberal urban policies?: A case of Kabukicho in Tokyo, Japan (Modern East Asia: Japan seminar)
2.	2019/02/21	Socioeconomic Relations in a Red Light District of Tokyo 2008-2013 (SÉMINAIRE SCIENCES SOCIALES DU JAPON CONTEMPORAIN)
3.	2018/11/09	Micro Politics of Night Time Economy: A Case of Sex Work in Tokyo (2018 SNU-UT JOINT SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM)
4.	2017/10/07	Twisted "Communality" in Red Light District: Reconsidering local community from Kabukicho
5.	2016/07/02	Performative Othering and the Possibility of Inclusion: The Case of Tokyo’s Kabukichō Red Light District (The Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan)
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Activity in society
1.	2023/05/19	What's happening in host clubs and Kabukicho?

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ORCID ID
0000-0001-5140-8258