He is a professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo.
[2] Yoshimi's works in Japanese include Dramaturgy in the City: A Social History of Popular Entertainments in Modern Tokyo (Kobundo, 1987), The Politics of Exposition: Imperialism, Commercialism and Popular Entertainment (Chuokoronsha, 1992), Cultural Sociology in the Media Age (Shinyosha, 1994), Voice of Capitalism: The Social Construction of Telephone, Gramophone and Radio in Japan (Kodansha, 1995), Expo Syndrome: Postwar Politics and Cultural Struggle in Postwar Japan (Chikuma Shobo, 2005), and Pro-America, Anti-America: Political Unconsciousness in Postwar Japan (Iwanami Shoten, 2007).
He was a visiting fellow of El Colegio de México (1993), Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales (1998), University of Western Sydney (1999), and University of Queensland (2000).
He is a member of the executive committee of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge), is part of the editorial board of Cultural Studies (Routledge), one of the associate editors of Theory, Culture & Society (Sage), and a member of the editorial advisory board of Japanese Studies (Carfax Publishing).
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