Ken-ichi Takashima (髙嶋謙一 Takashima Ken'ichi; born 1939) is, according to the editors of the Thesaurus Linguae Sinicae, "the world's leading authority on Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions".
[1] Takashima was born in Tokyo, he studied under Fr.
at University of Washington, graduating in 1973.
After a short stint at the University of Arizona, he spent his whole career as a professor at University of British Columbia, where he remains an emeritus professor.
[2] He has also held visiting posts at Tokyo University, Anhui University, and Erlangen.