Yasuko I. Takezawa is a Japanese cultural anthropologistÃÂ who researches race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, Japan, and other countries. She is a professor of cultural anthropology and sociology at the Institute for Research in the Humanities ofÃÂ Kyoto University.
Takezawa is a professor cultural anthropology and sociology at Kyoto University. She specializes in the study of race, ethnicity, and immigration, particularly in the United States and Japan. A distinguishing concern of TakezawaâÂÂs research is that race is not a modern Western construction but a construction emanating from the Middle Ages at least in Europe and Japan.
She is the author of Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans (1995) which was one of the finalists ofàVictor Turner Prizeàof theàAmerican Anthropological Association. Its Japanese version, æ°裠ç æ¥系ã¢ã¡ãªã«人ã®ã¨ã¹ãÂÂã·ãÂÂ㣠(Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity; 1994), won theàShibusawa Awardàof the Japanese Ethnological Society (now theàJapanese Association of Cultural Anthropology).