Specially Appointed Professor
Specialty field：Sociology
Takehiko Kariya
My research interests cover sociology of education; social stratification and social mobility; social changes of Postwar Japan; social and educational policies. In these areas, I have published 16 books in Japanese, including A Sociology of School, Occupations, and Selection (1991); The Rise of Mass Education Society (1995); Education in Crisis in Stratified Japan (won Osaragi-Jiro Rondan Shō Promotion Award in 2002); The Century of Education, (won Suntory Gakugei Shō, Academic Award in 2005); Education and Equality (2009); and Who killed Japan’s modernity What Comes after ‘Catch-up’? (2019), (won the Humanities and Social Sciences Prize by the 74th Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Sho (The Mainichi Publication Culture Prize). Additionally, I have edited and co-authored 13 other books, and published more than 50 articles in Japanese academic journals. I was awarded a Japanese Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (紫綬褒章), the Medal awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to academic and artistic developments, improvements, and accomplishments.
E-Mail: tkariya1955*sophia.ac.jp, takehiko.kariya*nissan.ac.ac.uk
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Biography
- 1979
- B.A. Education (Sociology of Education), University of Tokyo
- 1981
- M.A. Education (Sociology of Education), University of Tokyo
- 1988
- Ph.D. (Sociology), Northwestern University
- 1988
- Assistant Professor, National Institute of Multimedia Education
- 1988
- Associate Professor, National Institute of Multimedia Education (–1991)
- 1991
- Tenured Lecturer, Faculty of Education, the University of Tokyo (–1992)
- 1993
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo (–2000)
- 2000
- Professor, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo (–2009)
- 2008
- Professor in the Sociology of Japanese Society, Department of Sociology and The School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford (–2024)
- 2024
- Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
- 2024
- Specially Appointed Professor, the Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University
- 2024
- Specially Appointed Professor, Sophia University
- 2025
- Specially Appointed Professor, the Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University
Books/Papers
- Books
- ・Education Reform and Social Class in Japan (Routledge; 2013)
・Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age (Teachers College Press;2020; co-authored with Jeremy Rappleye)
- Co-editor of Challenges
to Japanese Education - ・Economics, Reforms, and Human Rights (Teachers College Press,2010)
・The State and Higher Education (Symposium Books, 2013)
- Publications
- ・“A Long & Wrong Road to Globalization: Why Have Japanese Universities Failed in ‘Catching Up’ in the Twenty-First Century?”, Daedalus, Volume 153, Issue 2, Spring 2024.
・“Can Non-Western Countries Escape From Catch-Up Modernity? The Troubling Case of Japan’s Education Reforms in a Global Era” in The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization, 2023.
・“Credential Inflation and Decredentialization: Re-examining the Mechanism of the Devaluation of Degrees” (co-authored with Satoshi Araki), European Sociological Review, February 2022.
・“Japan’s Post Catch-up Modernity: Educational Transformation and its Unintended Consequences”in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan, Edited by Hiroko Taketa and Mark Williams, Routledge, 2021.
・“Meritocracy, Modernity, and the Completion of Catch-up: Problems and Paradoxes” in Japanese Education in a Global Age - Sociological Reflections and Future Directions , edited by Yonezawa, A., Kitamura, Y., Yamamoto, B., and Tokunaga, T. Springer, 2018.
・“Education and Social Disparities in Japan”, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, 2018.
・“Understanding structural changes in inequality in Japanese education: from selection to choice,”2017, in Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation, editied by David Chiavacci and Carola Hommerich, Routledge.
・“Resource allocation, historical background of egalitarian education and its changes in Japan: A silent revolution and its unintended results”,2013, in Education in East Asia edited by Colin Brock and Pei-tseng Jenny Hsieh.
・“The State’s Role and Quasi-market in Higher Education: Japan’s Trilemma’ “ in The State and Higher Education, edited by Goodman, R., Kariya. T., and Taylor, J. , Symposium Books, pp.217-214, 2013.
・“Is everyone capable of becoming a ‘good citizen’ in Japanese society? Inequality and the Realization of the ‘Good Citizen’ education”, Multicultural Education Review, vo.4 No.1, April 2012, pp.119-146.
・“Japanese solutions to the equity and efficiency dilemma? Secondary schools, inequity and the arrival of ‘universal’ higher education,” Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2011, pp. 241–266.
・“Credential Inflation and Employment in ‘Universal’ Higher Education: Enrolment, Expansion, and (In)Equity via Privatization in Japan”, Journal of Education and Work, Vol.24 No.1-2, pp.69-94, Routledge, 2010.
・‘The Twisted, Unintended Impacts of Globalization on Japanese Education,” (co-authored with Jeremy Rappleye), in Research in Sociology of Education, Volume 17, pp. 17–63, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010.
Award
- 1984
- Graduate Study Grant, Fulbright Program (–1986)
- 1997
- Abe Fellow sponsored by the Japan Foundation and Social Science Research Council (–1998)
- 2000
- The Best Book Award on Labor Relations in 2000, the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
- 2002
- Osaragi-Jiro Rondan Shō Promotion Award 2002, Asahi Shinbunsha (Award given for debate-provoking academic works by Asahi Newspaper Company)
- 2005
- Suntory Gakugei Shō, Academic Award, 2005, Suntory Foundation.
- 2019
- Mainichi Publication Culture Award, 2019, Mainichi Newspaper Company.
- 2023
- The Purple Ribbon Medal, 2023.