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, Shure University. Asakura is Dean there. Asakura visited schools in the world and is also keen to network free democratic schools internationally. He has been an active member of International Democratic Education Conference for two decades. Asakura studies and writes about democratic education, history of education and ethnography of youth. Asakura is an also leading scholar of “self-ology”, a study about the self and by the self.