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Yasuko Takezawa(竹沢泰子)is a Japanese cultural anthropologist.

  • Areas of Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, American Studies
  • Fields of Research Interest: race, ethnicity, immigration studies
  • Regional Expertise: U.S.A., Japan


Education [1]

  • B. A. Comparative Culture, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1981
  • M. A. Anthropology, University of Washington (Fulbright Scholar), 1985
  • M. I. A. (Master of International Affairs), University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1987
  • Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Washington (Fulbright Scholar), 1989

Employment History [2]

2005-present

  • Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
  • Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
  • Associate Professor, College of International Relations/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Assistant Professor (tenured), College of International Relations/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Visiting Senior Research Scientist (2019-present), Columbia University


  • 1990-2018 Affiliate Professor (promoted from Affiliate Associate Professor in 2006), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington
  • 2005-2006 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, MIT
  • 2005-2006 Visiting Scholar (on a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science), Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
  • 1993-1994 Visiting Scholar (on Keidanren CBCC fellowship), Dept. of Anthropology/ Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles


  • Associate Executive Vice President of Kyoto University (Public Relations, 2010-2013)
  • Special Assistant to President of Kyoto University (2008-2010, 2013-2014)
  • Chair, Committee on Multiculturalism, Science Council of Japan
  • Executive Board Member of the Japanese Association for American Studies
  • Executive Board Member of the Japanese Association for Migration Studies
  • Member of the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology
  • Member of the American Anthropological Association
  • Member of the American Sociological Association


  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) A-Japan Based Global Study of Racial Representations(2010-2015)
    • Principal Investigator
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Integrated Research into the Processes and Mechanisms of Racialization(2016-2020)
    • Principal Investigator

Books[3]

  1. Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
  2. Nikkei Amerikajin no Ethnicity (Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of Internment and Redress). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994.
  3. Shinsoban – Nikkei Amerikajin no Ethnicity (Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of Internment and Redress, New Cover with a New Epilogue). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2017.

Edited and Co-edited books[4]

  1. Akio Tanabe, Yasuko Takezawa, and Ryuichi Narita eds. Kantaiheiyō chiiki no idō to jinshu : tōchi kara kanri e sōgū kara rentai e (Migration and Race in the Trans-Pacific Region) , Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2020.
  2. Takezawa, Yasuko and Laura Kina, Special Issue: Trans-Pacific Minor Visionsin Japanese Diasporic Art. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA), 6:1, 2020
  3. Takezawa, Yasuko and Jean-Frédéric Schaub (eds.) The Zinbun Gakuhō (Journal of Humanities): Special Issue Jinshushugi / Hanjinshushugi no Ekkyō to Tenkan. (Transformation of Racism and Anti-Racism Across Borders). Kyoto: Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University.
  4. Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations. (Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro, eds.) University of Hawai’i Press, 2016. (Paperback version published in 2020)
  5. Yasuko Takezawa (ed.) Dismantling the Race Myth. University of Tokyo Press.
    1. Vol. 1, In(Visibility): Representation of Invisible Race (Ayako Saito and Yasuko Takezawa, eds.
    2. Vol. 2, Knowledge: Between Science and Society (Toru Sakano and Yasuko Takezawa, eds.)
    3. Vol. 3, Hybridity: Beyond the Politics of “Blood” (Kohei Kawashima and Yasuko Takezawa, eds.)
  6. Yasuko Takezawa, ed. Racial Representations in Asia, Kyoto University Press, 2011.
  7. Migration Studies and Multicultural Coexistence, (The Japanese Association for Migration Studies ed.) (Editor-in-Chief: Yasuko Takezawa), Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo, 2011.
  8. Yasuko Takezawa, ed. The Racial Representation and Social Reality of Race. Tokyo: Iwanami, 2009.
  9. Yasuko Takezawa, ed. Is Race a Universal Idea?: Transcending the Western Paradigm. Kyoto: Jimbun Shoin, 2005.

Recent Articles[5]

  1. “Racialization and Discourses of “Privileges” in the Middle Ages: Jews, “Gypsies”, and Kawaramono,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43:16: 193-210, 2020
  2. “Translating and Transforming ‘Race’: Early Meiji Period Textbooks,” Japanese Studies 35 (1), Special Issue: Rethinking Race and Racism in Japan, 2015.
  3. DVD BBC Racism-A History , 3 volumes. Japanese Translation Supervised by Yasuko Takezawa. Tokyo: Maruzen. 2015[2007]

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