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-).

Presentation: * [Revisiting facts from a few years ago: fictiousness of Japan's "cluster-based approach" toward COVID-19]. 2025-03-16 Sendai.

Preprint: Was Japan's cluster-based approach toward coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a fantasy?. Research Square, 2023-03-17.

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

Moved: According to the School of Arts and Letters restructuring plan, Tanaka moved to a new department, "Innovative Japanese Studies", orinented to the research of culture, thought, history, and social problems. [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]

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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.)

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About my research

Works

2025. * [Revisiting facts from a few years ago: fictiousness of Japan's "cluster-based approach" toward COVID-19]. Japanese Studies Workshop, 2025-03-16 Sendai.
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)
2023. Was Japan's cluster-based approach toward coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a fantasy? Research Square.
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 | Academia.edu | OSF

Created: 2001-08-25. Updated: 2025-03-17.
Copyright (c) 2001-2025 Tanaka Sigeto.