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AKIHIKO SATO (Ph.D., Kyoto University) is Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
He has been studying both legal and illegal drug problems for thirty years. He is the author of Drug and Discourse: Methamphetamine in Japan (Kakuseizai no Shakaishi, Toshindo, Tokyo, Japan, published in Japanese, Japanese Association of Social Problems Academic Promotion Award (2007) and 7th Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology Promotion Award (2008)), and Sociology of Drugs: Psychoactive substances and social order (Drug no Shakaigaku, Sekaishisosha, Kyoto, Japan, published in Japanese)
He has published many articles and book chapters on drug problems and drug policies, including “Methamphetamine use in Japan after the Second World War: Transformation of narratives”, Contemporary Drug Problems, 35/Winter 2008, 717-746, 2009, and “Methamphetamine users and the process of condemnation in Japan: framing and influence” in S. MacGregor and B. Thom eds., Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous Places and Dangerous People, Routledge, 2020.
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