Prof Satoshi Araki has published a review paper "Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies" in Sociology Compass (https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.70072) and an empirical paper "Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: Evidence from postpandemic Japan" in Social Science Japan Journal (https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaf004). In the review article, Prof Araki examines the existing body of literature on education and social stratification in contemporary Japan and discusses how to leverage the Japanese case to engage a broader audience and generate novel theories in the field. In the other piece, he analyses the effects of telework on job satisfaction during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that the relationship between remote work and job satisfaction has markedly changed over the past few years in a way that potentially mitigates inequalities in worker well-being.