Wednesday 20 October 2004
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Social Segregation and Urban Change in Japan
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Professor Anthony Fielding, Professor David Cope and Hiroshi Saito discussed the issues of urban change in Japan, focussing on the problems of social segregation.
About the contributors
Professor Anthony Fielding
Professor Anthony Fielding (chair) is Professor of Human Geography at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex. He has a PhD in Applied Geography from LSE. Professor Fielding was Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University, 1994-95 and 1998, and was Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, 2001-02. His current research interests include: interregional migration and social mobility in the UK, Europe and Japan; urbanisation and counter urbanisation; urban change in the UK; European and East Asian international migration; and social segregation in Japanese cities.
Hiroshi Saito
Hiroshi Saito received a Master of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Urban Planning) from Waseda University Graduate School in 1995 and worked at the Research Institute of Architecture Co. Ltd from 1995 to August 2004. At the RIA, he was engaged in planning and promoting urban redevelopment projects in Kobe City and Ashiya City in Hyogo Prefecture and Toyonaka City in Osaka Prefecture which were severely damaged by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on 17 January 1995. He is currently a PhD student at School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Professor David Cope
Professor David Cope (chair) is Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Before assuming that position in 1998, he was Professor of Energy and Resource Economics at Doshisha University in Kyoto, moving there from Cambridge where he was Director of the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development. An earlier period as Environmental Team Leader with the International Energy Agency gave him world wide experience of pollution control initiatives, including in Japan.