• Ako Tomoko

    Associate professor in the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University. Born in 1971. Graduated in 1994 from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, where she majored in Chinese. Received her master’s degree in international development from Nagoya University in 1996 and her doctorate in educational sociology from the University of Hong Kong in 2003. After serving as a researcher at the Embassy of Japan in China and an associate professor at Gakushūin Women’s College, assumed her present position in 2009. Her specialty is contemporary Chinese studies. Her works include Hinsha o kurau kuni: Chūgoku kakusa shakai kara no keikoku (A Country that Devours the Poor: The Warning from China’s Society of Disparities).

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    Aug 29, 2022