Yasuko I. Takezawa (竹沢泰子, born 1957)[1] is a Japanese cultural anthropologist 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 of Kyoto University.
Takezawa is a professor cultural anthropology and sociology at Kyoto University.
[2][3] She specializes in the study of race, ethnicity, and immigration, particularly in the United States and Japan.
[4] A distinguishing concern of Takezawa’s research is that race is not a modern Western construction but a construction emanating from the Middle Ages at least in Europe and Japan.