Junichiro Itani (伊谷 純一郎, Itani Jun'ichirō, May 9, 1926 – August 19, 2001) was a Japanese anthropologist who served as a professor emeritus at Kyoto University and as president of the Primate Society of Japan.
He received BS in March 1951, and became a researcher at Japan Monkey Centre, Inuyama, Aichi.
He observed the society of Japanese macaque at Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden.
[1] In 1962, he submitted his doctoral dissertation titled "Communication of wild Japanese macaque"(野生ニホンザルのコミュニケーションに関する研究).
The majority of his work was based around the social structures of primate society.