Yasushi Watanabe

Yasushi Watanabe is a full Professor at Keio University in Japan. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1997 with a dissertation on "Nurturing A Context: The Logic of Individualism and the Negotiation of the Familial Sphere in the United States." After post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, he joined Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance as well as Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in 1999. He attained the rank of full Professor in 2005, and is one of Japan's most prominent experts on cultural policy, public diplomacy, and American Studies.