Bio

Dr. Keiko HIRAO is a professor of sociology at Sophia University, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies in Tokyo. Her research interests include work and family, environment and sustainable lifestyle, and comparative family. She received her BA in American studies from Nanzan University, MA in international relations from Sophia University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from University of Notre Dame. She has written extensively on education, labor market, motherhood, and families in Japan, including three books for general audience. She is the author of Child Rearing War Front and chapters in Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility, Working and Mothering, and Thinking Body as Intelligence. Her most recent book, Invisible Hand and Invisible Heart came out in 2015 from Sophia University Press.