Address
Intercultural Research Center
Kansai Gaidai University
Nakamiya Higashinocho, Hirakata-City, Osaka 573-1001 Japan
E-mail:
takezawa.yasuko.2u[at mark]kyoto-u.jp (permanent address);
yasuko.takezawa@gmail.com
Gender
she/her/hers
Current Position
Professor, Intercultural Research Center, Kansai Gaidai University
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Univeristy
Education
1989
Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Washington (Fulbright Scholar)
1987
M. I. A. (Master of International Affairs), University of Tsukuba, Japan
1985
M. A. Anthropology, University of Washington (Fulbright Scholar)
1981
B. A. Comparative Culture, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Employment
2023-present
Professor, Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University
Spring 2024
Visiting Professor, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales(EHESS)
Fall 2023
Visiting Professor, Terasaki Center, University of California, Los Angeles
May 2023
Guest Lecturer (one month), Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
2005-2023
Professor, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University
2010-2013
Associate Vice President of Kyoto University (international/ domestic public relations)
2005-2006
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Taught a course, “race and science,” in the Department of Anthropology)
1999-2005
Associate Professor, Institute for Research in the Humanities,
Kyoto University
1996-1999
Associate Professor, College of International Relations/ Institute of
Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
1990-1996
Assistant Professor (tenured), College of International Relations/
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
1990 (winter)
Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program, University of California,
Santa Barbara
1987-1988
Teaching Associate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington
1984-1987
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
Other Professional Experiences
2022-present
President of the Japanese Association for Migration Studies
2018-present
Editorial Board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies
2019-present
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University
2008-2010
Advisor to the President of Kyoto University
2020-2022
Vice President of the Japanese Association for American Studies
2017-present
Chair of the Committee on Multiculturalism in Japan, Science Council of Japan
2017- 2021
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
(MEXT), member of committee on research fund,
Member of committee on the improvement of the grant-in-aid for
scientific research (Kakenhi)
2008-present
Member of the Committee on Cultural Anthropology, Science Council of Japan
Member of the Committee on Biological Anthropology, Science Council of Japan
Member of the Committee on Multiculturalism in Japan, Science Council of Japan
2008-2020
Member of the Committee on Area Studies
2012-present
Chair of the Council of Foreign Residents of Hyogo Prefecture
2020-2021
Chair of the Council of Policy Planning for Multiculturalism in Hyogo Prefecture
1996-2000
Member of the executive committee to reexamine the concepts of race
and ethnicity, Science Council of Japan
2017-2020
Hyogo International Association, Editor-in-chief, Editorial Committee
for the publication of the 150th anniversary of Hyogo Prefecture (re. Multiculturalism)
Membership in Academic Societies
- American Sociological Association (Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section)
- American Anthropological Association
- American Ethnological Society
- Association for Asian American Studies
- Ethnic and Racial Studies (Editorial board member)
- Japanese Association for American Studies (Vice President)
- Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
- Japanese Association for Migration Studies (Board member)
Other Affiliations
1990-2017
Affiliate Professor (promoted from Affiliate Associate Professor in 2006)
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington
2016 (winter)
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Sociology, University of California,
Santa Barbara
2015(fall)
Visiting Scholar, Reishauer Institute, Harvard University
2005-06
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University (on a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science)
1993-94
Visiting Scholar (on Keidanren CBCC fellowship), Dept. of Anthropology/Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards and Recent Grants
Book Awards
- Shibusawa Award by the Japanese Association for Ethnology
(currently the Japanese Association for Cultural Anthropology) for Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity(in Japanese). (1995)
- Final Nominee for the Victor Turner Award by American Ethnological Society (U.S.) for Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity. (1995)
- Publication Award for distinguished book manuscripts on American Studies by the Japanese Association for American Studies, for Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity. (1993)
Grants
- Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering), “An Anthropological Study of Human ‘Differences’ and Discrimination,” by JSPS, the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science 25.48 million yen. (2024-2027)
- P.I. (Principal Investigator/ Representative, same for all the following grants)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), “An Integrated Study of Process and Mechanism of Racialization,” by JSPS, the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science 150.9 million yen (about 1.4 million dollars). (2016-2023)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), “A Japan-based Global Study of Racial Representations,” by JSPS, the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science, 214.5 million yen (about 2 million dollars). (2010-2016)
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), “An Interdisciplinary Study of Representation and Expression of Race,” by JSPS, the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science, Principal Investigator. (2006-2010)
- Grant to Promote Internationalization of Research and Education, by
the Ministry of Education and Science (Visiting scholar at Harvard University). (2005-2006)
- (others omitted)
Publications
Books and Journal Special Issues
(in English)
2023
Guest editor, Special Feature: Genetics, DTC, and Their Implications, Anthropological Science. Anthropological Society of Nippon.
Yasuko Takezawa and Akio Tanabe eds., Race and Migration in the Transpacific, London: Routledge.
2021
Guest editors: Yasuko Takezawa and Jean-Frédéric Schaub, Special Issue: Race and Civilization in Japan, Paris: L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
2020
Guest editors: Yasuko Takezawa and Laura Kina, Special Issue: Trans-Pacific Minor Visions in Japanese Diasporic Art. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA), 6:1.
2019
Guest editors: Yasuko Takezawa and Laura Kina, Forum: Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encounters and Envisions of Minor-Transnationalism, Amerasia Journal (UCLA).
2016
Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Okihiro eds., Transpacific Japanese American Studies: Dialogues on Race and Racializations, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
2011
Racial Representations in Asia, Yasuko Takezawa ed., Kyoto/ Melbourne: Kyoto University Press/Transpacific Press.
1995
Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (See Awards)
(in French)
2021
Guest editors: Jean-Frédéric Schaub et Yasuko Takezawa, Race et Civilisation au Japon. Paris: L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
(in Japanese)
2023
Racism in the United State: Categories and Identities, Nagoya: Nagoya U Press.
2022
Yasuko Takezawa and Jean-Frédéric Schaub eds., Racism and Anti-Racism: Crossing Boundaries and Transformations, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.
2021
Yasuko Takezawa, Daisuke Higuchi and Hyogo International Association eds., Multiculturalism in Hyogo: A History of 150 Years, Kobe: Kobe Shimbun Printing.
2020
Akio Tanabe, Yasuko Takezawa, and Ryuichi Narita, Migration and Race in the Trans-Pacific: From Governance to Control, From Encounters to Alliances, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.
2019
Guest editors: Yasuko Takezawa and Jean-Fredrick Schaub, Special Issue, Border-crossing and Transformation of Racism and Anti-Racism, Zinbun Gakuho, Kyoto: Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University.
2017
Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of Internment and Redress. New Cover and Epilogue. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
2016
Dismantling the Race Myth, Yasuko Takezawa series editor, University of Tokyo Press.
Vol. 1, Visibility/Invisibility (co-edited with Ayako Saito)
Vol. 2, Knowledge: Between Science and Society (co-edited with Toru Sakano)
Vol. 3, Hybridity: Beyond the Politics of “Blood” (co-edited with Kohei Kawashima)
2011
Migration Studies and Multicultural Co-Existence, Yasuko Takezawa editor-in-chief. (The Japanese Association for Migration Studies), Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo
Gguest editor: Yasuko Takezawa, Special Issue on Representations of Differences, Zinbun Gakuho, Vol. 100, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University.
2009
Migration Studies and Multicultural Co-Existence, Yasuko Takezawa editor-in-chief. (The Japanese Association for Migration Studies), Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo
2005
Is Race an Universal Idea?, Yasuko Takezawa ed., Kyoto: Jimbun Shoin.
1994
Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of
Internment and Redress. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
(Shibusawa Award)
Book Projects in Progress:
(in Japanese)
Monograph contract with Iwanami Shoten, Rethinking the Theories of
Race.
Monograph contract with Chuko Shinsho, Race and Racism.
(in English)
Yasuko Takezawa, Faye V. Harrison and Akio Tanabe eds., Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism in the 21st Century.
London: Routledge (forthcoming, fall 2023)
Selected Articles/Book Chapters in English
2022
“Japan’s Modernization and Self Construction Between White and Yellow,” The Routledge Critical Whiteness Studies Handbook, London: Routledge.
Yasuko Takezawa and Stephen Small, “Theorizing People of Mixed Race in the Pacific and the Atlantic,”
Social Sciences 11(3), 124 (
open access)
“Social Issues and the Role of Anthropology in Contemporary Japan,” Gustavo Lins Ribeiro ed.
Pathways to Anthropological Futures, Wenner-Gren Foundation (
open access).
2021
“Race, Civilisation and the Japanese: Textbooks During the Meiji period,” Politika (EHESS), March 20, 2021(
open access).
2020
“Racialization and Discourses of “Privileges” in the Middle Ages: Jews, “Gypsies”, and Kawaramono,”
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43:16: 193-210 (
open access).
2019
“Trans-pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encounters and Envisions of Minor-Transnationalism,” in ‘Forum’ of Amerasia Journal, 45 (3): 1-10. Co-authored with Laura Kina. (guest editors: Yasuko Takezawa and Laura Kina)
2017
“Antiracist Knowledge Production: Bridging Subdisciplines and Regions,” American Anthropologist, September.
2016
“Introduction” (with Gary Y. Okihiro), in Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racialization (Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro, eds.,), pp. 1-10.
“Shifting Grounds in Japanese American Studies: Reconsidering ‘Race’ and ‘Class’ in a Transpacific Geopolitical-Historical Context,” pp. 13-15.
“Negotiating Categories and Transforming (Mixed) Race Identities: The Artworks and Narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu
Saldamando,” pp.60-82.
“Toward More Equal Dialogue,” pp. 396-400.
2015
“Introduction: Rethinking Race and Racism in and from Japan,” (co-authored
with Koichi Iwabuchi), Japanese Studies, 35:1, Special Issue: Race and Racism in Japan.
“Translating and Transforming ‘Race’: Early Meiji Period Textbooks,” Japanese Studies, 35:1, Special Issue: Race and Racism in Japan.
2014
“Human Genetic Research, Race, Ethnicity and the Labeling of Populations:
Recommendations based on an interdisciplinary workshop in Japan,”
(Yasuko Takezawa, Kazuto Kato, Hiroki Oota, Timothy Caulfield, et al.) BMC Medical Ethics, 2014.
2012
“Problems with the Terms: ‘Caucasoid’, ‘Mongoloid’ and ‘Negroid,’” ZINBUN, No. 43, pp. 61-68.
2011
“Introduction,” in Racial Representations in Asia, Takezawa ed., Kyoto:
Kyoto University Press, pp. 1-6.
“Toward a New Approach to Race and Racial Representations: Perspective from Asia” in Takezawa, op. cit., pp. 7-19.
“New Arts, New Resistance: Asian American Artists in the ‘Post-race’ Era,” in Takezawa, op. cit., pp. 93-123.
2010
“Race in Asia,” Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History.
“Japan’s Minority Peoples,” Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History.
“New Arts, New Resistance: Asian American Artists in the ‘Post-race’ Era,” in Takezawa, op. cit., pp. 93-123.
2008
“Tabunka Kyōsei’ and Community-Rebuilding After the Kobe Earthquake,” in Multiculturalism in New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries within Japan, John Ertl et al., eds. Berghahn Books, pp.32-42.
“Japan’s Minority Peoples,” Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History.
“Toward a New Kind of Collectivity in American Studies,” Nanzan Review of
American Studies, 30, pp.75-81.
2006
“Race Should Be Discussed and Understood Across the Globe,” Anthropology
News, “Rethinking Race and Human Variation” special editions of February and March 2006, American Anthropological Association, pp.7-8.
Reprinted online in “Bibliography” of the Understanding Race website.
http://www.understandingrace.org/
2005
“Transcending the Western Paradigm of the Idea of Race,” The Japanese
Journal of American Studies 16, pp. 5-30.
2002
“Nikkeijin and “Multicultural Coexistence” in Japan: Kobe after the Great
Earthquake,” in New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, et.al., eds. Stanford University Press,. pp.310-330.
2000
“The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and Town-Making Towards Multiculturalism,” ZINBUN, No.34(2), 87-99.
1999
“Racial Boundaries and Stereotypes: An Analysis of American Advertising,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies 10, pp.77-106.
1997
“Multiculturalism and Citizenship: The Effects of the 1996 Immigration Laws,” in Diversified Migration patterns of North America: Their Challenges and Opportunities, JCAS Symposium Series 4 Population Movement in the Modern World II, Kitagawa Otsuru Chieko, ed., pp. 237-260.
1991
“Children of Inmates: The Effects of the Redress Movement among the Third Generation Japanese Americans,” Qualitative Sociology 14(1): 39-56.
Recent Selected Articles/Book Chapters in Japanese
2021
“Race and Racism: Conversations Between Biological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology,” in Sciences Examining Human Essences, Yasuko Ihara, et al. eds, pp.237-250. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
2020
“‘Race’ and Human Diversity: For School Education,” in How to Teach ‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity’? Kyoko Nakayama, et al. eds., 22-30. Tokyo: Akashi shoten.
2016
“Works and Narratives of Mixed Race Japanese American Artists,” in vol. 3, Hybridity: Beyond the Politics of “Blood” (ed. Kohei Kawashima and Yasuko Takezawa). Series of Dismantling the Race Myth, Yasuko Takezawa (series editor), University of Tokyo Press, pp. 249-274.
“Introduction: Visibility and Invisibility of Differences, ” co-authored with
Ayako Saito, in vol. 1: (In)Visibility (ed. Ayako Saito and Yasuko Takezawa). Series of Dismantling the Race Myth, University of Tokyo Press, pp. 3-32.
“On (In)Visibility of Differences and Discrimination,” in vol. 1: (In)Visibility,
pp.249-264.
DVD
2015
“The Colour of Money” vol. 1; “Fatal Impacts” vol. 2; “A Savage Legacy” vol. 3, BBC Racism: A History (DVD), subtitle, editor in chief.
Recent Invited Lectures at Overseas Universities / Institutions
2024
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies (U.S.A.)
Université Paris Cité (France)
2023
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS (Lyon, France)
Central European University (Austria)
Heidelberg University (Germany)
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Toronto (Canada)
2022
Book launch, Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (UK)
2021
Wenner-Gren Foundation (U.S.A.)
American Studies Association of Korea (Republic of Korea)
United Nations, Academic Impact (U.N.)
New York University (U.S.A.)
2020
University of California, Berkeley (U.S.A.)
University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.A.)
2019
Dublin College University (Ireland)
Uppsala University, Sweden
2017
University of Southern California (U.S.A.)
EHESS (France)
2016
University of Southern California (U.S.A.)
University of California, Santa Barbara (U.S.A.)
2015
University of Cologne (Germany)
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Southern California (U.S.A.)
University of Delhi (India)
2014
Universidad del Valle (Colombia)
University of Cologne (Germany)
2013
Sun Yat-sen University (China)
2012
The Academy of Korean Studies (Korea)
Tsinghua University Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Taiwan)
Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (Korea)
2011
University of Tasmania School of Social Sciences (Australia)
The Academy of Korean Studies (Korea)
2010
Gyeongsang National University (Korea)
Yonsei University (Korea)
