Katsuya Hasegawa BA, MA, AFHEA

My PhD project is to investigate how international gay male tourists experience Tokyo’s gay tourist district. I specifically focus on two things: how the gay tourists’ experiences and behaviours are influenced by the atmosphere of Tokyo’s gay tourist space and how, at the same time, their behaviours influence the gay tourist place in Tokyo. My research is currently supervised by Dr Wenjie Cai (1^st), Dr Isabella Ye (2^nd), and Prof. Steven Miles (3^rd), following the passing of my former supervisor, the late Prof. Alastair Morrison.

I have been teaching tourism and hospitality at the University of East London as an hourly-paid lecturer since January 2025. I hold a BA in law in Japan and an MA in Sociology from the University of Exeter. Between my BA and MA degrees, I worked in a translation company as an account manager in Tokyo. I started my MPhil/PhD with a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship at the University of Greenwich in 2023.