2023 - 2024 Basic Research for a Resilient Music Industry in the After-Corona Era
2020 - 2022 Locality Studies of Popular Music in Postwar Japan: The Case of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya
2020 - 2021 都市における音楽文化の形成過程についての研究-心斎橋アメリカ村を事例に
2019 - 2020 戦後日本における都市音楽文化の形成と変容 --心斎橋アメリカ村を事例に
Papers (5):
Kato Ken. Japanese Popular Music and Cultural Policy : An Evaluation of Public Support and Its Challenges in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2025. 21. 45-70
Ken Katō. Shibuyaan palautettu ”Shibuya-kei”-musiikki: Paikallisuuden rakentuminen ja muutokset populaarimusiikissa. Etnomusikologian vuosikirja. 2024. 36
Kato Ken. Relocalizing Shibuya-kei Music in Shibuya: The Construction and Transformation of Locality in Popular Music. 2020. 24. 1. 17-34
KATO Ken. 〈Review Paper〉What makes City Pop, City Pop? -The Current State amd Prospects of City Pop Sutudies. HANDAI ONGAKUGAKUHO. 2020. 16・17合併号. 45-62
加藤 賢. 「渋谷系」と「渋谷」のあいだ--ポピュラー音楽のローカリティ形成と変容--. 2019
MISC (37):
Ken Katō. JOHDANTO (TUTKIJOILLE SUOMESSA). 2024. 36
加藤 賢. Sony Music Labels presents 25th Anniversary Artists LIVE & TALK イベントレポート. 2024
Reimagining the City: Neo-City Pop and Independent Soundscapes
(And Suddenly There Was City Pop.... The Global Dimensions of the Retrograde Formation of A Japanese Popular Music Genre 2025)
Resonating Beyond History: How Music and Pop Culture Mended Philippines-Japan Relations
(3Con - Japanese Popular Culture Entanglements in the Philippines 2024)
Beyond Nostalgia: Exploring City Pop’s Revival and Its Impact on Japanese Cultural Identity
(Textuality as social action: reframing popular music in Shōwa era Japan 2023)
VR user's gender-crossing performance strategies in virtual spaces
(17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) 2023)
The Japan Association for Cultural Policy Research
, Japan Association for Urban Sociology (JAUS)
, IASPM-Japan
, The Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music
, Japan Artificial Intelligence Music Society