Institute of Socio-Infonomics
Tama University

Biography

1957 — B.A. in Economics, University of Tokyo.
1959 — Master’s program in theoretical economics, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo.
1968 — Ph.D. in Economics, Indiana University.
1967 — Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.
1967 — Visiting Assistant / Associate Professor, Carleton University, Canada.
1971 — Visiting Researcher, Economic Planning Agency, Japan.
1978 — Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.
1988 — Visiting Research Professor, University of Washington, USA.
1990 — Professor, International University of Japan.
1993 — Director, Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan.
2004 — Director, Institute of Socio-Infonomics, and Professor, Tama University.

Selected Books and Papers

Information Civilization. NTT Publishing, 1994. [Japanese]
The Age of Netizens (editor and co-author). NTT Publishing, 1996. [Japanese]
Japan’s Resurgence in 2005 (editor and co-author). NTT Publishing, 1998. [Japanese]
The Evolution of Civilization and Informatization. NTT Publishing, 2001. [Japanese]
An Introduction to Socio-Infonomics: Living in the Age of Late Modernity. NTT Publishing, 2004. [Japanese]
Phase Analysis of the Information Society and Knowledge Capitalism. With Yasuhide Yamanouchi. Journal of the Infosocionomics Society, Vol. 20, No. 2, March 2026. [Japanese]
Knowledge Capitalism in the Information Society. With Yasuhide Yamanouchi. Journal of the Infosocionomics Society, Vol. 18, No. 1, September 2023. [Japanese]

Research Interests

Social systems theory.
Studies of Japanese society.
Information civilization.

Articles

Joint Recommendation on Policies for the Development and Use of AI
Posted: 2023-04-28
David Farber and Shumpei Kumon’s statement of 27 April 2023 welcomes AI’s potential while calling for international cooperation on risk assessment, transparency in technological development, and guidelines adapted to different users and purposes. The authors’ original English PDF is available.

Remembering Professor Takeyuki Hida
Posted: 2018-04-07
Professor Takeyuki Hida, Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University, died on 29 December 2017. This memorial introduces his links with the institute and the relevance of his research on stochastic processes to Socio-Infonomics. The Features page brings together related materials.

Social Systems Theory: Course Materials for 2012
Posted: 2012-02-17
Reference materials for the 2012 Tama University course on social systems theory. The original Japanese page links to the course document.

English renderings of Japanese publication titles are provided for reference. Links lead to the editions or publication records used on the Japanese profile.