:Shinji Miyadai
{{Short description|Japanese sociologist}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2008}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Nihongo|Shinji Miyadai|宮台 真司|Miyadai Shinji|extra=born 3 March 1959 in Sendai, Japan}} is a Japanese sociologist and professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University.{{cite news
|url=http://www.asahi.com/culture/news_culture/TKY200709060085.html
|script-title=ja:影を潜めた破壊者ぶり 石原・宮台対談
|date=6 September 2007
|publisher=Asahi Shimbun
|language=Japanese
}}
Education
Miyadai has a PhD from the University of Tokyo for his research on Mathematical sociology.
Academic career
Using the method of game theory, he analyzed how the power of the state works in society. He is one of the most outspoken sociologists in Japan, and is currently working on the strategy the Japanese government should adopt for the 21st century.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
He has been a constant presence in the world of Japanese letters since the publication of his PhD dissertation in 1989. His controversial work on compensated dating in Japan was the subject of much discussion after its publication.{{cite news
|url = http://www.tsujiru.net/compass/compass_1998/reg/fuijiwara_kaoru.htm
|title = The world according to the teenagers in Japan: The other side of Enjo-Kosai
|publisher = Compass Online, The Yearly Magazine of Student Writing in English
|date = 1998–1999
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110127124726/http://www.tsujiru.net/compass/compass_1998/reg/fuijiwara_kaoru.htm
|archive-date = 27 January 2011
|author=Sungmyŏng Yŏja Taehakkyo. Asea Yŏsŏng Munje Yŏnʼguso
|publisher=Research Center for Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University
|year=1997
|page=102
|title=Asian women, Volumes 5-6
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w53xAAAAMAAJ
}}
History
On 29 November 2022, Miyadai was attacked at the Minami-Osawa campus in Hachioji in a widely-reported knife attack.{{cite web | url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20221130/k10013908091000.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130044733/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20221130/k10013908091000.html | archive-date=30 November 2022 | title=社会学者の宮台真司さん 講義終了直後に襲われる 予定を把握か | publisher=NHK | date=30 November 2022 }} A suspect in the attack committed suicide on 16 December 2022 without explaining his motives.{{cite web | url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/02/b654ee6ae519-suspect-in-attack-on-japanese-sociologist-miyadai-has-died-source.html | title=Suspect in attack on Japanese sociologist Miyadai killed himself }}
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Category:University of Tokyo alumni
Category:Japanese sociologists
Category:Academic staff of Tokyo Metropolitan University
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