Munesuke Mita (見田 宗介) was a Japanese sociologist who wrote about modern society. Mita has studied about modern society at University of Tokyo and influenced many young sociologists such as Masachi Ohsawa, Shunya Yoshimi, Atsushi Miura and Shinji Miyadai.

Biography

After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1960, Mita entered that university's graduate school where he completed the coursework for a doctorate. Under his own name and with the pseudonym Yūsuke Maki (真木悠介, Maki Yūsuke), Mita has published a large amount of material. His numerous books are mostly sociological but include one on Kenji Miyazawa. An English translation of one of his books together with excerpts from several others is published as Social Psychology of Modern Japan. Mita made a keynote report A Framework for the Sociology of Future: Logistics Curve and the Axial Ages at the National Session of World Congress of Sociology in 2014. Mita received Orders of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor of Japan in 2017. One of his sons is Ryūsuke Mita, creator of Dragon Half. Munesuke Mita has a good relationship with Hiroshi Sugimoto, Michiko Ishimure, Kiyokazu Washida, Shunsuke Tsurumi, Kazuko Tsurumi and Maki Fumihiko.

Books by Mita

Single-author (Japanese)

Complete works (Japanese)