Research keywords (9)：
Employment relations
, Industrial Citizenship
, Sociology of labor
, Economic sociology
, New institutionalism
, Japan Study
, Gender
, Comparative sociology
, Class and stratification
Research theme for competitive and other funds (13)：
2024 - 2028 The Examination of the Sustainability of Capitalist Society - Focusing on the Expansion of Platform Work
2023 - 2028 The examination of the status achievement mechanism of immigrant workers focusing on the roles of intermediary agencies
2019 - 2024 The making of transnational labor markets - Economic sociological study of the roles of personnel business in Asia
2019 - 2023 The Mechanisms of Social Class Formation through Education in Developed Societies: Historical and Comparative Sociological Analyses
2020 - 2021 Employment relations and social inequality
2016 - 2020 The expansion of non-regular employment and the changes of masculinity
2015 - 2018 Comparative Study of Demographic Changes and Mobility Regime in Asian Societies
2017 - 2017 The social effects of the sociocultural displacement of the Ainu in Modern Japan
2012 - 2016 Research on Social Stratification and Rewards Inequalities in Japan from a Comparative Sociological Perspective
2012 - 2015 Interdisciplinary Study of Social Stratification and Employment-livelihood Risks Focusing on the Dynamics of Mobility Regimes
2011 - 2015 Masculinity in Service/Knowledge Economy: Basic Research on the Changes of Welfare-Employment Regime
2002 - 2006 Employment Diversification in Japan: The Case of Temporary Dispatched Work
Jun Imai. The vanguards of building transnational labor markets: the activities of Japanese THAs in Asia. Sociological Studies, published by the department of sociology, Sophia University. 2022. 46. 27-55
Heinrich, S., Imai, J. Work and employment: Inside, outside and beyond the lifetime employment model. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan. 2020
IMAI Jun. Intersection between industrialization and the rise of citizenship - comparison between the US, Japan and South Korea. Mobility Regime and Social Inequality. 2018. 135-152
Jun Imai. Private Labour Market Intermediaries in Cross-Border Labour Markets in Europe and Asia. Transnationalisierung der Arbeit. 2018
IMAI, Jun. Book Review: KAMURO Ayami, 2022, Analysis of Employment Systems that Produce Disparities between Employment Status: A History of the Division Employment Status: A History of the Division of Labor and the Formation. Social Policiy and Labor Studies. 2024. 15. 3. 160-163
BOOK REVIEW Sociology of Work and Organization in the 21st Century By Shintaro Matsunaga, Kaoru Sonoda, and Numeto Nakagawa. Advances in Social Research. 2023. 31. 104-104
Jun Imai. BOOK REVIEW The Japanese Economy By Hiroaki Richard WATANABE. Asia-Japan Research Academic Bulletin. 2023. 4. 77. 1-4
Book review: Reading the Research Series "The Structure of Social Stratification in the Aged Society with Low Fertility" (the results of 2015 SSM survey). 2023. 73. 4. 460-470
Employment Relations and Social Inequalities: Social Structural Changes Shaped by the Development of Industrial Citizenship
Yuhikaku 2021 ISBN:9784641174580
Studying Japan : Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2021 ISBN:3848750856
Routledge handbook of contemporary Japan
Routledge 2021 ISBN:9781138668614
Do the Online Labor Platforms Bring Autonomy to Workers?- Preliminary Analyses
(97th Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociolocal Society 2024)
The Marketization of Work Relations by Online Platform - The Case of Company A
(36th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Associaation of Labor Sociology 2024)
Potential Problems of the Rise of Online Labor Platform in Japan
(Nanjing Forum 2024 2024)
Examining the contribution of the book "The meaning of labor in the age of diversification of labor" edited by Ishii and Eto
(Workshop on Labor and Contemporary Social Relations 2024)
1997 - 2006 State University of New York at Stony Brook Graduate School, Department of Sociology
1994 - 1996 International Christian University Graduate School of Public Administration
1986 - 1990 International Christian University College of Liberal Arts Division of Social Sciences
1983 - 1986 Utsunomiya High School
Professional career (2)：
PhD (Sociology) (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
B.A. (Liberal Arts) (International Christian University)
Work history (14)：
2023/04 - 現在 Sophia University SRO Research Institutes Division Institute of Comparative Culture
2018/04 - 現在 Sophia University Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences Professor
2022/04 - 2022/09 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and Faculty of Letters Part-time Lecturer
2014/04 - 2018/03 Sapporo Aoba Vocational College Part-time Lecturer
2012/04 - 2018/03 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Letters, Department of Sociology Associate Professor
2015/04 - 2016/03 Doshisha University Institute for Study of Humanities and Social Sciences Adjunct researcher
2013/04 - 2013/09 Fuji Women's University Faculty of Humanities Part-time Lecturer
2012/10 - 2012/10 Tohoku University Graduate School of Arts and Letters Part-time Lecturer
2009/03 - 2012/03 Tohoku University Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Department of Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality Assistant Professor
2006/06 - 2009/02 University of Duisburg-Essen Institute of Sociology/Institute of East Asian Studies Post-doctoral Research Associate, Lecturer
2002/04 - 2006/03 International Christian University College of Liberal Arts Part-time lecturer
2002 - 2006 University of Duisburg-Essen Institute of East Asian Studies Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
1999 - 2001 Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg Institute of East Asian Studies Wissenshaftliche Hilfskraft
1990/04 - 1994/03 Sumitomo Bank Ltd.
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Committee career (18)：
2024/10 - 現在 Japanese Association of Labor Sociology Chairperson (interim)
2023/11 - 現在 The Japan Sociological Society The Committe for the Promotion of International Research Activities (Chair)
2022/03 - 現在 A member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Industrial Relations
2013/03 - 現在 A member of the Editorial Board of Contemporary Japan
2021/11 - 2023/10 The Japan Sociological Society Committee
2020/11 - 2023/10 Japan Association for Social Policy Studies International Exchange Committee
2018/11 - 2022/03 Japan Sociological Association IJJS, Editorial Board
2020/11 - 2021/10 The Japan Sociological Society Member of Recommendation Committee, Shorei-sho award, The Japan Sociological Society
2018/11 - 2021/10 日本社会学会 社会学評論編集委員会 専門委員
2017/06 - 2019/06 Hokkaido Sociological Association Board member
2018 - 2019 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Reviewer of the Grants-in Aid for Scientific Research
2015/12 - 2018/11 Japan Sociological Association Committee on Sociology Education
2014/10 - 2018/10 Japanese Association of Labor Sociology Board member
2014/07 - 2018/07 International Sociological Association RC28 (Economy and Society) Board Member
2016/09 - 2018/03 北海道立女性プラザ 運営協議会委員
2015/12 - 2017/11 日本社会学会 奨励賞選考委員会委員
2014 - 2016 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Reviewer of the Grants-in Aid for Scientific Research
2013/06 - 2015/06 Hokkaido Sociological Association Board member
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Awards (5)：
2022/05 - Japan Association for Social Policy Studies JASPS Shōrei-shō Award Employment Relations and Social Inequalities: Social Structural Changes Shaped by the Development of Industrial Citizenship
2018/08 - Hokkaido University Excellent teacher (2017 academic year)
2017/07 - Hokkaido University Excellent teacher (2016 academic year)
2017/01 - Hokkaido University President's award for outstanding education
2015/10 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Best reviewer award, JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Association Membership(s) (7)：
Hokkaido Sociological Association
, International Sociological Association
, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
, 日本労働社会学会
, 社会政策学会
, European Association for Japanese Studies
, 日本社会学会
