Satō Takumi

Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University. Specializes in media history and popular culture. Born in 1960. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University. Studied for two years at Ludwig Maximilian University (Research Center of Modern History) in Germany for two years. Received his PhD from Kyoto University. Held posts at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Journalism and at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Assumed his current post in 2015. Major publications include“Kingu” no jidai (The Age of “Kings”), a 2002 work that received the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences, and Saigo no media kūkan: Rondan to jihyō 2012–2013 (The Media Space After the Disaster: The Press and Current Events Commentary 2012–2013).

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May 28, 2018