Updated on 10th Sep. 2020

●POSITION

Professor

Department of Sociology, Hosei University, Tokyo

●RESEARCH INTERESTS

Youth Policy

Community Development

●BOOKS

Higuchi, Akihiko, Yasuhiro Kamimura and Maki Hiratsuka eds., 2011, Youth Issues in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Tokyo: Hosei University Press. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2004, The Guide to Social Services for Hikikomori (the young people who withdraw into their own rooms), Osaka Local Vocational Training Center. (in Japanese)

●PAPERS IN BOOKS

Akihiko Higuchi, 2016, "Extended Transitions to Adulthood in Japan: Labour Market Flexibilization and the Weakness of Social Security for Young People", Raymond K H Chan, Jens O Zinn, and Lih-Rong Wang eds., New Life Courses, Social Risks and Social Policy in East Asia, Routledge.

Akio Inui, Akihiko Higuchi & Maki Hiratsuka, 2015, "Entering the Precariat: Young People’s Precarious Transitions in Japan", Johanna Wyn & Helen Cahill eds., Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, Springer.

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2013, “Youth Issues and Social Inclusion: The Absence of Benefits for Young People at Risk”, Masayuki Fujimura ed., Welfare Sociology of Partnership, Tokyo: Tokyo University Press. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2011, “Young People from the Perspective of Social Exclusion: Three Dilemmas of the Welfare State in Japan”, Junichi Saito, Taro Miyamoto and Yasushi Kondo eds., The Direction of Social Security and Welfare State, Kyoto: Nakanishiya Publisher. (in Japanese)

Higuchi Akihiko, 2009, “School Dropout and Hikikomori (the young people who withdraw into their own rooms)”, The History of Social and Labor Movements at Osaka Volume 9, Osaka: Osaka Social and Labor Movement Association. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2008, “Hikikomori (the young people who withdraw into their own rooms) and Social Exclusion: The Absence of Social Services”, Tatsushi Ogino, Minoru Kawakita, Koji Kudo and Ryutaro Takayama eds., Sociological Approach to Hikikomori, Kyoto: Minerva Publisher. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2007a, “Confrontation between the Ethics of Care and the Ethics of Justice: Carol Gilligan and Eva Kittay”, Makoto Ariga, Yasuhiko Ito and Akira Matsui eds., Counterbalancing Force to Post-liberalism, Kyoto: Nakanishiya Publisher. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2007b, “Youth Issues and Social Exclusion in Japan: Decent Work, Activation and Social Participation”, Hiroyuki Fukuhara ed., Social Exclusion/Social Inclusion and Social Policy, Kyoto: Houritsubunkasha. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2006, “Young Precarious Workers and Social Capital”, Hiroshi Tarohmaru ed., The Sociology of Freeter and Neet, Kyoto: Sekaisisosha. (in Japanese)

●PAPERS IN JOURNALS

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2014, “The Mechanisms of Social Exclusion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of Active Labor Market Policy”, International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Vol.23(1): 110-124.

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2011, “Career Development in the External Labor Market, Economic Policy for Quality Life, No.172: 16-20. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2008, “Rethinking of the Labor Market Policies for Young People”, Journal of Municipal Research, Vol.161: 48-57. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2007, “The Labor Market Policies for Young People in Japan”, Quarterly Labor Law, Vol.217: 73-85. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2006a, “Revisiting the Concept of Independence”, Revue de la pensée d'aujourd'hui, 34(14): 124-136. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2006b, “Against the Social Exclusion of Young People”, Quarterly Journal of Modern Society, Vol.8: 56-67. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko and Toshiro Kameyama, 2004, “Young People at Risk”, Journal of Research on Household Economics, No.63: 60-68. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2004a, “The Mechanisms of Social Exclusion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of Active Labor Market Policy”, Japanese Sociological Review, No.217: 2-18. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2004b, “Who Cares Hikikomori (the young people who withdraw into their own rooms)?”, Municipal Gender Policy, Series 3: 120-127. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2004c, “Globalization and Social Exclusion”, Journal of Transnationality, 93-110. (in Japanese)

●PRESENTATIONS

Inui, Akio, Akihiko Higuchi and Maki Hiratsuka, 2013, “Precarious Transition in Japan: Who are in Precarity and How They Feel It?”, Youth Studies Conference: New Agendas on Youth and Young Adulthood, 8th April in Glasgow. (in English)

Honda, Yuki, Maki Hiratsuka, Akihiko Higuchi, Masahiro Kidoguchi and Takumi Arikai， 2010，The Differentiation of Trajectories from School to Work in Present-Day Japan”, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 15th July in Gothenburg．(in English)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2010a, “The Disadvantages of the Working Poor”, Society for the Study of Poverty Conference, 7th November in Hokkaido. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2010b, “The Social Security System for Young Workers”, Japanese Educational Research Association Conference, 21th August in Hiroshima. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2009, “A Comparison of Youth Policy in Japan, Korea and Taiwan”, Society for the Study of Social Policy, 13th October in Kyoto. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2006, “Young People who swayed between Social Exclusion and Familial Inclusion”, Japan Society of Family Sociology, 10th September in Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2005a, “Contribution of Non-formal Education to Young People's Employability”, Japan-EU Seminar on Youth: Enhancing People's Participation in Society through Non-formal Education, 23-25th November in London．(in English)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2005b, “Youth Policy as Social Inclusion”, Japan Sociological Society Conference, October in Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2005c, “The Socially Excluded Young People”, Kansai Sociological Association Conference, May in Osaka. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2004, “The Effects of Youth Policies for Freeter and Neet”, Japan Welfare Sociology Association Conference, June in Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2002, “Social work and Social Exclusion: Policy for the Insertion in France”, Japan Sociological Society Conference, November in Osaka. (in Japanese)

Higuchi, Akihiko, 2001, “The Mechanism of Social Exclusion: The Typology of Welfare States in Western Europe”, Japan Sociological Society Conference, November in Tokyo. (in Japanese)

●REASERCH EXPERIENCE

2007-2013, “Youth Cohort Study of Japan”, Japanese Educational Research Association.

2009-2013, “Research on Part-time High School Students in Yokohama”, Research Group based on Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research.

2012-2013, “Research on career of the Disadvantaged Worker”, Homeless Resource Center.

2010-2012, “Research on High School Dropouts”, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

2009-2010, “Research on the Working Poor in Japan”, Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards, Japanese Trade Union Confederation.

2005-2008, “The National Survey of Social Stratification and Social Mobility”, Japan Sociological Society.

2003, “Research on Social policy for the Young Unemployed and the Young Precarious Workers”, The Institute for Research on Household Economics.

●PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Winner of the Best Paper Award, Japan Sociological Society, 2005