佐藤研究室
Study of Drug Policy
Study of Drug-induced Sufferings
Discourse Analysis and Qualitative Analysis in Sociology
Akihiko Sato, Ph.D.
Akihiko Sato, Ph.D. is a Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, in Japan. Akihiko is a sociologist and his research topics are drug policy, drug use, drug-induced sufferings, and discourse analysis. Akihiko is the first social scientist in Japan to have commenced research on drug use and drug policy.
Akihiko is the author of Drug and Discourse: Methamphetamine in Japan (Kakuseizai no Shakaishi, Toshindo, Tokyo, Japan) published in 2006, which received both Japanese Association of Social Problems Academic Promotion Award (2007) and 7th Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology Promotion Award (2008).
Publications in English
Akihiko's primary language is Japanese, but he published some papers and chapters in English. Some of them can be downloaded from this page.
English papers and chapters
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“Vaccine Discourse and Vaccine-Induced Sufferings: Discourse analysis of the promotion and hesitation of vaccination in Japan”, Language, Discourse & Society, 12(1), 13-35, 2024.(PDF downloadable)
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Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication, G. Hunt, T.M.J. Antin and V.A. Frank eds., (Chapter 25, "Symbolic meaning of the amphetamin-type stimulant problem throughout the restoration of Japanese Society after WWII", pp.412-433), Routledge, 2022.
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Risk and Substance Use: Framing dangerous people and dangerous places, S.MacGregor and B.Thom eds., (Chapter 3, "Methamphetamine users and the process of condemnation in Japan: framing and influence", pp.30-48), Routledge, 2020.
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Interventions for Amphetamine Misuse, R.Pates ed., (Chapter 11, "Japan's long association with amphetamine", pp.147-158), Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.(PDF downloadable)
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"Methamphetamine use in Japan after the Second World War: Transformation of narratives", Contemporary Drug Problems, 35/Winter 2008, pp.717-746, 2008.(PDF downloadable)
English abstracts of the selected papers in Japanese
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"Reconsidering Two Types of Health and Medical Sociology in Japan: Multiformity and Continuity That Maintain Interdisciplinarity", The Japanese Journal of Health and Medical Sociology, 31(1), 32-39, 2020.
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"Contemporary Issues and the Possibilities to Inquiry into Them in the Sociology of Deviance: Discourse Analysis and its Usage in the Research of Deviance", Japanese Sociological Review, 68(1), 87-101, 2017.
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"European Approach to Drug Problems and the Contemporary Decriminalized Control: Some Trends and Implications in Harm Reduction", Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology, 38, 124-137, 2013.
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"On the Accounts and Descriptions in the Qualitative Researches of Drug Use: Scientific/rational methods in Symbolic Interactionism and the Analysis of Discourse", Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology, 28, 82-95, 2003.