Shujiro Yazawa

Shujiro Yazawa is professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University and Seijo University in Tokyo, and ex-president of the Japan Sociological Society. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association from 1994 to 2002 and a board member of Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements) of the ISA until 2014.

The crisis of democracy in Japan

Japan is on the brink of changing from a pacifist state to one prepared to go to war if necessary. Now, more than ever, we must refocus international scrutiny on the country’s social movements.

By Shujiro Yazawa

/ 16 Jul 2015