YOSHIE ITANI

Profile

Project Professor; Tokyo University of the Arts, Global Support Center
Visiting Professor; Teikyo University, School of Medicine
Managing Director of Itani Art Office Corporation
President of Japan Porcelain Society (2007~)
Representative Director of the International Kougei (Handicrafts) Exchange System (2012~)
Chair of the Japan Coffee Cultural Society (2022~)
Chair of the Contemporary Handicrafts Artist Association
Member of The Japan Writers’ Association
Member of the Japan Travel Writers’ Organization
Member of the Africa Society of Japan ,Project Assessment and Funding Committee

Japanese modern art history (focusing on decorative arts), Japanese modern export ceramics history, and intercultural communication

Doctor of Philosophy; University of Oxford, Oriental Institute (now Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) (2006)
Master of Arts (Distinction); SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) (2001)
Master of Arts (School of Humanities); Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan (2000)
Bachelor of Arts (French Language and Literature); Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan (1979)