ITO Kimio

Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

Biography
He was born in 1951 in Saitama Prefecture. He finished his Ph.D. course at Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. After being granted a scholarship from the Italian Government and studying at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan, he was appointed as Associate Professor at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, and then later appointed as Associate Professor and subsequently Professor at Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University. In 2005 he took up the present position at Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. He is specialized in Culture Sociology and Gender Studies. Among the several social activities he participates in, we can indicate that he was President of the Japanese Sports Sociology Society (2005 to 2009), and that he is currently President of the Japan Gender Studies Society (since 2007), President of the Kansai Sociology Society (since 2007), a member of the Gender Equality Professional Examination Board of the Cabinet Office (since 2001), United Nations Population Fund Tokyo Office Advisor Board member (since 2002), etc.

 
Principal Academic Contributions

Kimio ITO, “The Empire of Light/ the Labyrinth Revolution –Italy inside the Mirror”, Seikyusha Publishing House, 1993

Kimio ITO, “The Whereabouts of ‘Masculinity’”, Shinyosha Publishing House, 1993

Kimio ITO, “Introduction to Male Studies”, Sakuhinsha Publishing House, 1996

Kimio ITO, “Mirror of Modernity —Invented Tradition of Modern Japan”, co-authored, University of California Press, 1998

Kimio ITO, “The Myth of ‘Masculinity’”, NHK Publishing House, 2003

Kimio ITO, “Questioning ‘Gender Equality’ –Modern Japanese Society and Gender Politics”, Impact Publishing House, 2003

Kimio ITO, “Gender, Transgender and Sexualities in Japan”, co-authored, Routledge, 2005

Kimio ITO, “International Encyclopedia of Men & Masculinities”, Routledge, 2007 (Editorial Board Member)

Kimio ITO, “The Sociology of Gender”, published by the Society for the Promotion of the University of the Air, 2008

Kimio ITO, “Sociology Basics”, ten regular volumes and an especial extra volume, co-authored, Sekaishisosha Publishing House, 2008 and currently in print.

 
GCOE Research Committee: RC Theory

 
Current Research Subject and Aspirations toward the GCOE
  Besides the academic achievements I have obtained in the areas of Cultural Sociology and Media Studies so far, at present I am beginning sociological research on visual image. I would like to examine visual images not only just from the perspective of image reading and decoding, but also taking an overall general viewpoint, considering visual image as an aid in social research, the development of visual image application methods as teaching material and educational media, the preservation and exhibition of visual images, etc.
  I am preparing, as a steering committee member, the session titled “Visual Image and the Intimate Sphere” within the context of the “Academic Usage of Images” international symposium, which will take place in Kyoto University in December, 2009.
  Also, as president of the executive committee of the Academic Visual Image Competition connected with this symposium, I am in charge of the selection of the material sent from all corners of the world for this purpose.

 
Activities within GCOE
(1) Sub-Leader（responsible for Publications and Executive Coordinator of the GCOE）
(2) Research Project
(3) Academic Presentations within the activities of the GCOE (since July 2008 on), etc.

 
Books and collaborations:

Kimio ITO, “The Progress of Gender Equality in Kyoto University”, in “Kyoto University: the Challenge to Gender Equality”, edited by the Women Researchers’ Support Center of Kyoto University and published by Akashi Shoten Publishing Company, pp. 18 to 28.

Kimio ITO, “Augmented Edition: Questioning ‘Gender Equality’ –Modern Japanese Society and Gender Politics”, Impact Publishing House, p. 334.

Kimio ITO, “Japanese Feminism”, 12 volumes, Iwanami Publishing Company, 2009.

Kimio ITO, “Japan, Germany and Italy: Getting rid of the Super Declining Birth Rate Aging Society”, co-authored with Atsuko Fujitani, published by Akashi Shoten Publishing Company, 2009.

 
Academic Dissertations:
Kimio ITO, “Demand of Trafficking in Persons in Japan” and “Demand Reduction Approach and its Difficulties”, in the International Symposium “Current Issues of Trafficking in Persons –In the World, Asia and in Japan” organized by the National Women’s Education Center, Japan, and jointly supported by the Global Center of Excellence for the Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21^st century Asia, Kyoto University, and by the Global Center of Excellence for Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in the Age of Globalization, Tohoku University, held at the National Women’s Education Center on December 20^th, 2008.

 
Other:
Kimio ITO, “What are ‘men’”, ten articles, which run from No.1 in the July 2008 edition, to No. 10 in the March 2009 edition, in “Asahi Family” Magazine, published by Asahi Family News Publishing Company.

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