Kageki Asakura has worked in both areas, the practices and the study of democratic education. Asakura has worked at the oldest free democratic school in Japan and founded the first Japanese democratic university, TDU/Tekisen Democratic University (it was Shure University). Asakura is Director there. Asakura is keen to network free democratic schools/ universities internationally. He has been an active member of International Democratic Education Conference for longer than two decades. He loves to help launching democratic universities in the world. Asakura studies and writes about democratic education, history of education and ethnography of youth. Asakura is also a pioneer scholar of “self-ology”, a study about the self. Asakura has been invited as a speaker to many international conferences, such as European Council’s World Forum For Democracy(France), BEYOND UNIVERSITY: Critical, Conference for Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors (Turkey), International Democratic Education Conferences(Finland, Israel, India, Ukraine, USA, etc.), International Conference of Creative Education (Russia), National Conference of Alternative and Community Schools (USA), Korean Democratic Education Conference (Korea).
