“Homeless Doctor: The Graduate School Becoming a Dispatch Village and a Black Company” Akimichi Suigetsu, Kobunsha Shinsho, Price: 740 yen (excluding tax) First edition, first printing, September 20, 2010. With obi. "Even a PhD from the University of Tokyo has an employment rate of about 40%" "100,000 unemployed or non-regular PhD holders" — A Buddhist priest with a PhD at the center of the issue examines solutions to the worsening "highly educated working poor" problem. ◎ Three years after "Highly Educated Working Poor." What happened to the PhD holders afterward? ◎ What is the reality of "full-time" part-time lecturers and "government-sponsored qualification business scams"? ◎ Includes a conversation with Kensuke Suzuki (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University). ◎ Even non-regular jobs are "better than nothing" / Even a PhD from the University of Tokyo has an employment rate of about 40% / Teachers and office staff are all non-regular employees / 100,000 unemployed or non-regular PhD holders / The ultimate disparity society that produces homeless doctors — the distorted structure of the academic world / Whether you can get a job depends on luck / Japan, a country dominated by undergraduate graduates / The shackles of student loan repayment — PhD holders are structurally made into working poor / Is graduate school necessary for our country? / Second-year undergraduate students are better than straight-through graduate students / The reality of art universities / Did the quality decline because the quantity increased? / Abandoning PhD holders will destroy the country 〈Table of Contents〉 Part 1: The Graduate School Becoming a Dispatch Village and a Black Company (When you go to graduate school... Even non-regular jobs are "better than nothing" / Even a PhD from the University of Tokyo has an employment rate of about 40%, etc.) Part 2: To Give Up Hope and Live "Tenaciously" ( "What will you do next year?" / "Perhaps, a convenience store clerk" / Doubts about words like effort, talent, and self-reliance, etc.) Conversation: Thinking about the Meaning of Going to Graduate School (Kensuke Suzuki × Akimichi Suigetsu) (The wavering value of graduate school / The reality of graduate school seen through numbers / The history of universities after the war, etc.) Akimichi Suigetsu Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1967. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science in 1997. Completed the doctoral program at Kyushu University Graduate School in 2004. PhD in Human Environmental Studies. Specializes in environmental psychology and environmental behavior theory. Ordained in 2006 (Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha). His books include "Children's Detours" (Tosho Shobo), "Town Planning Where Children Can Detour" (co-authored, Gakugei Publishing), and "Academia Survival" (Chuko Shinsho LaCret). "Highly Educated Working Poor" (Kobunsha Shinsho), published in 2007, became a bestseller. Currently a researcher at the Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Research Organization and a part-time lecturer at Doshisha University. His status after the spring of 2011, when his term expires, is undecided. #AkimichiSuigetsu #Poverty #Education #GraduateSchool #SocialIssues