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Ms. Saya Oyama ‧Associate Professor of Sociology Department of Psychology, College of Human Sciences Kinjo Gakuin University ‧Japan |
| Professional Employment |
| 【2005–Present】Associate Professor, Kinjo Gakuin University 【2002–2005】Lecturer, Kinjo Gakuin University 【2000–2002】Lecturer, Soai University 【1997–2000】Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| Biography |
| In 1997, awarded a research grant from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Saya Oyama began her initial research on issues concerning multiple indebtedness in Japan. In 1998, she began to study self-help groups of over-indebted individuals through participant-observation. Over the following four years, she continued observation on over-indebted individuals through interviews and studies on judicial record of victims of loan sharks. Through these work, she clarified the socio-psychological process of individuals who became over-indebted and then to resolve the problem. In 2005, in collaboration with Japanese NGOs supporting over-indebted individuals, she began a field survey on inter-linkages between the penetration of Japanese consumer finance companies in Asian countries outside Japan and the emergence of problems concerning over-indebtedness in these countries. In 2007, she began exchanges with NGOs and NPOs working on issues of poverty and consumer over-indebtedness in Europe and the United States. In 2009, her case study “The Impact of Well-Established Micro-level Mundane Interaction between Over-indebted Individuals and Legal Professionals (Lawyers and Judicial Scriveners) on a Macro-level Change i.e. Enactment of the 2006 Amendment of Money Lenders’ Law” won the Incentive Award for Excellent Young Researchers at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Sociological Association. |