Yoshiro Imaeda (Japanese: 今枝 由郎, Hepburn: Imaeda Yoshirō, born 1947) is a Japanese-born Tibetologist who has spent his career in France.
[1] Born in Aichi Prefecture, Imaeda graduated from the Otani University Faculty of Letters, where he studied with Shoju Inaba, under whose advice he pursued graduate studies in France, where he earned his Ph.D. at Paris VII.
He began work at the CNRS[clarification needed] in 1974.
In 1995, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also held a visiting appointment at Columbia University.
His research has focused on Dunhuang Tibetan documents, but he has also translated the poems of the VI Dalai lama, and produced a catalog of Kanjur texts.