TANAKA Sigeto

is interested in gender inequality, refactoring social institution, and use of information technology in social sciences.
Born in the Kinokawa riverside just before the first oil crisis.
Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University (2001-).

For students:

Earthquake Response Information: https://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/emer/
COVID-19 Response Information: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/university_news/information_of_covid_19.html#linkunwell

Publication: * The statistics community and the misconduct issue for Japanese official statistics: How the government, experts, and non-experts responded to the problem of the Monthly Labour Survey. Annual Reports of Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University 73 [2024-03-21]

Publication: * [Use of official statistics]. Japan Society of Family Sociology. Encyclopedia of family sociology. Maruzen (2023-12-30)

Publication: * Equivocality of the term "cluster" in Japan's COVID-19 response: Changes in 2020. Bunka 86(3/4) [2023-08-10]

Preprint: Was Japan's cluster-based approach toward coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a fantasy?: Re-examining the clusters' data of January-March 2020 (2023-03-17)

Call for research students: Application for non-degree research student under my supervision (always open). [2019-04-14]

Moved: School of Arts and Letters restructured its organization in April 2019. According to the restructuring plan, Tanaka moved to a new department, "Innovative Japanese Studies", with two other professors: Professor Takahashi Akinori (on culture and thought in early-modern Japan) and Associate Professor Christopher Craig (on regional history in modern Japan). [2019-04-01]

This site moved: The new location is http://tsigeto.info. Accesses to the old URL http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~tsigeto/ is redirected to the new URL. [2017-04-25]

Updates: Sorted by categories | explanation | SNS, Office, and Address

---The prefix `*' in this page means `monolingual in Japanese'.---

About my classes

First Term, 2021 | Timetable

Work in Japan (2nd grade) [T]
Basics of Questionnaire Survey (3rd grade) [T]
Basics of Statistical Analysis (3rd grade)
Research of Social Problems in Modern Japan (3rd grade/graduate) [T]

Second Term, 2021 | Timetable

Basics of In-depth Interview (3rd grade) [T]
Statistical Analysis in Practice (3rd grade)
Family and Population in Modern Japan (3rd grade/graduate) [T]

(The mark [T] indicates classes participating in Tohoku University Global Leader Program.)

* Classes in the School of Arts and Letters

Classes in Tohoku University (ID/PW required)

Search Classes in Tohoku University

Materials for students

What's new on School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University: feeds (RSS etc.) updator for sal.tohoku.ac.jp and related sites
Updates on Tohoku University and Tanaka's classes (my personal blog) | Subscribe RSS
* Basics of Academic Writing (Documents for 2010 class)
* Literature Survey Primer for Tohoku Univ. Students

About my research

Works

2024. * The statistics community and the misconduct issue for Japanese official statistics: How the government, experts, and non-experts responded to the problem of the Monthly Labour Survey. Annual Reports of Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University 73
2023. * Equivocality of the term "cluster" in Japan's COVID-19 response: changes in 2020. Bunka. 86(3/4)
2022. * The number of COVID-19 patients as official statistics and its interpretation: the changing meaning of the term 'cluster' in Japan's policy. The 73th meeting of Kansai Sociological Association (May 29)
2022. * Changes in the family and the livelihood security system. Handbook for Japanese studies. ISBN: 9784909658739
and more...

Research Projects

2017-2020. Unscientific knowledge and the "egg aging" panic (KAKENHI #17K02069)
2015-. Propaganda-oriented Population Policy of 2010s Japan
2015-. Ideology-Institution Dynamics with Causal Modeling
2015-. National Sociologies from spider's-eye view with Web 2.0 technologies
1998-. National Family Research of Japan (NFRJ)
and more...

Data and Softwares

E-mail: tanakas2013@tsigeto.info
Office: Innovative Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, 980-8576 JAPAN
Activities elsewhere: Blog | Researchmap | Hatena | Twitter | Facebook | @JSSunofficial | Academia.edu | OSF

Created: 2001-08-25. Updated: 2024-03-21.
Copyright (c) 2001-2024 Tanaka Sigeto.