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Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo

Degree: Ph.D.(University of Southern California)
M.A.(津田塾大学（アメリカ研究）)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201201083845565704
researchmap Member ID: B000222709

External link: https://itatsulab.jp/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / History - Europe/America /

Research History

Apr, 2021 - Present

Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies/Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Feb, 2024 - Feb, 2024

Visiting Professor, Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advance Research Centre (SSSHARC), University of Sydney
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022

Global Education for Innovation and Leadership Program (Joint appointment), The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2021

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Oct, 2010 - Mar, 2012

Project Associate Professor, Komaba Organization for Educational Excellence, University of Tokyo
Apr, 2009 - Oct, 2010

Project Assistant Professor, Komaba Organization for Educational Excellence, University of Tokyo
Apr, 2008 - Mar, 2009

Fixed-term assistant professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Komaba Organization for Educational Development, The University of Tokyo

Education

Committee Memberships

Nov, 2023 - Present

Vice President, The Association for Leisure and Tourism Studies (Japan)
Jun, 2022 - Present

Managing Director, Japanese Association of American Studies
Jul, 2018 - Present

Councilor, Japanese Association of American Studies
May, 2015 - Present

Counsel, Shizuoka Prefectural Association
Nov, 2020 - Oct, 2023

Board member, The Association for Leisure and Tourism Studies (Japan)
Jun, 2023 - Aug, 2023

AI Prompt Grand Prix Judge, Japan Association for Infomatics Education
2016 - Mar, 2023

Judge, All Japan Junior and Senior High School English Newspaper Contest, Global Education Information Center
Oct, 2014 - Oct, 2022

Judge, Kanagawa Prefecture High School Speech Contest, Kanagawa Prefecture Board of Education
2013 - 2018

Judge, Princess Takamado Essay Contest, Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research, University of Alberta (Canada)
May, 2015 - Jun, 2017

Board of trustees, University of Tokyo Newspaper (Public interest incorporated foundation)
2012 - 2013

Board member, Japanese Association of American Studies

Awards

Oct, 2022

Best book award, Exploring the Culture of Enthusiasts: From the Perspective of Serious Leisure, Association of Leisure and Tourism

Kohei Sugiyama, Koichi Utagawa, Sekiya Sonoda, Yuko Itatsu, Masahiro Yamanaka, Momoko Aono
Oct, 2021

Best journal paper award, Intersections of Leisure Studies and Artificial Intelligence: The issues and their potential, Association of Leisure and Tourism

Yuko Itatsu
2006

Nikaido Fellowship, University of Southern California
2004

John R. Hubbard Fellowship, University of Southern California
2004

Teaching Assistant Mentor Award, University of Southern California
2003

Teaching Assistant Mentor Award, University of Southern California
2000

CWAJ Scholarship, College Women's Association of Japan
2000

Fulbright Scholarship
2000

Yamane Toshiko Scholarship
1996

Ishizaka Taizo Award, Tsuda College
1995

Ichikawa Sanki Award, Tsuda College
1992

Ichikawa Sanki Award, Tsuda College

Papers

Comparative cultural reflections on robots and gender

Ai Hisano, Yuko Itatsu

Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 42(1) 9-13, 2024
Intersections of Leisure Studies and Artificial Intelligence: The issues and their potential

Yuko Itatsu

Journal of Leisure and Tourism, (8) 43-52, Mar, 2021 Peer-reviewed
The cultural topology of picnicking in early 20th century Los Angeles: A theory on isolation and community building

Yuko Itatsu

Journal of Leisure and Tourism, 5 17-24, Mar, 2018 Peer-reviewed
The EFL Writing Center in East Asia: Addressing Regional Challenges in the 21st Century

Yuko Itatsu

EFL Writing in East Asia: Practice, Perception and Perspectives. [Kaken Final Report: Kiban kenkyu B 24320101], 228-237, Mar, 2016
A Survey on University Writing Instructors' Perception on EFL Writing in Japan

Kyoko Oi, Beverley Horne, Yuko Itatsu

EFL Writing in East Asia: Practice, Perception and Perspectives. [Kaken Final Report: Kiban kenkyu B 24320101], 39-63, Mar, 2016
A Survey of Awareness of and Attitudes to EFL Writing among Junior and Senior High School Teachers ---Perspectives Gained through a Comparison of Three Countries: Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Kyoko Oi, Yuko Itatsu, Beverley Horne

EFL Writing in East Asia: Practice, Perception and Perspectives [Kaken Final Report: Kiban kenkyu B 24320101], 14-38, Mar, 2016
自然科学研究者のための英語発信力の育成：東京大学の試み

Yuko Itatsu

薬剤学, 75(4) 200-203, Jul, 2015
日本の高等教育における英語ライティング指導の実態調査

保田幸子, 大井恭子, 板津木綿子

JABAET (The Japan-Britain Association for English Teaching), 18 55-78, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Beyond Nationalism: A Transnational History of Leisure Discourse between the United States and Japan, 1900-1940

Yuko Itatsu

University of Southern California, 2009 Peer-reviewed
An Analysis of Leisure Argumentation: Before and After the Great Depression in the U.S.

Yuko Itatsu

Proceedings for the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, 86-92, Aug, 2008 Peer-reviewed
Japan's Hollywood boycott movement of 1924

Yuko Itatsu

HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION, 28(3) 353-369, 2008 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Book introduction: A cultural history on food and mobility - Contested agency, space and representation

Yuko Itatsu

UTokyo Biblio Plaza, Apr, 2023
New Books: Rieko Maekawa, Darwin H. Stapleton and Roberta Wollons, eds.Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond

Yuko Itatsu

The Japanese Association for Migration Studies, 28 137-137, Jun, 2022 Lead author
Circulatory Reflections through the Artificial Intelligence Lens

Yuko Itatsu

Journal of Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, (102) i-iii, Mar, 2022
An Open Letter to A

Yuko Itatsu

Komaba Times, (11) 22-23, Mar, 2022
To our tamed tongues: A word on systemic racism

Yuko Itatsu

Komaba Times, Sep, 2020
蜘蛛の巣を払う女ー駒場とジェンダー

板津木綿子

駒場友の会会報, (33) 2-3, Sep, 2019 Invited
「学生の声解き放つFLOW」

Yuko Itatsu

『教養学部報』, 3-3, Feb, 2017
Visualizing the Political Economy of the Chinese Exclusion

Yuko Itatsu

CPAS Newsletter, 13(2) 5-6, Mar, 2013
「ライテイング・センターにおけるTAによるチュートリアル」

Yuko Itatsu

東京大学教育GP 「質の高い大学教育推進プログラム」『討議について討議する』報告書, 36-41, 2011
「科学論文を素材とした学生同士のピア・レビュー」

Yuko Itatsu, Tom Gally

東京大学教育GP 「質の高い大学教育推進プログラム」『討議について討議する』報告書, 32-35, 2011
「ティーチング・アシスタントの活用推進」

Yuko Itatsu

東京大学教育GPシンポジウム「質の高い大学教育推進プログラム」『ジェネリック・スキルとしての討議力ー主体的な学びの作法』報告書, 20-24, 2010
The Imperial Collection: Celebrating 20 years of the Emperor's Reign

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, Oct, 2009
「デジタルメデイアによる教育・研究の再想像」

Yuko Itatsu

CPAS Newsletter, 10(1) 5-5, 2009
Beyond Ukiyo-e: The Cream of the Crop of Japanese Treasures

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, May, 2008
Wasabi of Newspaper: Hidezo Kondo's Political Cartoons

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, Mar, 2008
Bakumatsu Nippon: Exhibit at the Tobacco & Salt Museum

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, Nov, 2007
Okakura Tenshin: Exploring the Origins of Modern Art Education in Japan

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, Sep, 2007
Kenjinkai Celebrates Its Centennial

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, Dec, 2005
Book review of Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts by Gloria Gonick

Yuko Itatsu

Daruma: Japanese Art & Antiques Magazine, 44 56-56, Aug, 2004
The Last Samurai: Beyond Fact and Fiction

Yuko Itatsu

Cultural News, Jan, 2004

Books and Other Publications

AI literacy for inclusive education

Japan Society for Educational Technology, Sep, 2023
Gender in Japanese Popular Culture: Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities

(Role: Joint author, Not Quite There: Nike's Diversity and Inclusion Agenda and Japan's Readiness)

Palgrave Macmillan, Apr, 2023 (ISBN: 9783031129445)
Understanding AI in Society: How technology exerts power

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Yuko Itatsu, Ai Hisano (Role: Joint editor)

University of Tokyo Press, Mar, 2023 (ISBN: 9784130530330)
Unpredictable Agents: The Making of Japan’s Americanists During the Cold War and Beyond

Mari Yoshihara, ed., Yuko Itatsu (Role: Contributor, The accidental mirror: The shine and shatter of my American dream)

Univ of Hawaii Press, Oct 31, 2021 (ISBN: 0824888847)
Exploring the Culture of Enthusiasts: From the Perspective of Serious Leisure

Kyohei Miyairi, Kohei Sugiyama, eds, Yuko Itatsu

Nakanishiya, Apr, 2021
A Cultural History on Food and Mobility: Contested Agency, Space, and Representation

Yuko Itatsu, Tomoko Ozawa, Michiyo Kitawaki (Role: Editor, Introduction (pp.7-20), Chapter 3 "Ephemeral Pursuits: Understanding Picnic Culture in 1920s Los Angeles," pp. 149-220))

Sairyusha, Feb, 2021
The U.S.A. today: Understanding Trump's America

Yujin Yaguchi ed, Yuko Itatsu (Role: Contributor, Popular culture as a forum for public opinion formation and mechanism for equilibrium: Under the Trump admistration (pp. 95-123))

University of Tokyo Press, Aug, 2020 (ISBN: 9784130330763)
University of Tokyo, Komaba Style

University of Tokyo, College of Arts, Sciences (Role: Contributor, English Education: What is woven from tradition and innovation)

University of Tokyo Press, Jun, 2019 (ISBN: 9784130013512)
Japaneseness across the Pacific and beyond = ジャパニーズネスは太平洋を越える/超える

小澤, 智子, Azuma, Eiichiro (Role: Contributor, "Leisure in Desperation: The Alliance and Axis of Rhetoric in the Global Recreation Movement, 1930-1945," (pp. 167-203))

Sairyusha, 2019 (ISBN: 9784779125591)
アメリカ文化事典

アメリカ学会 (Role: Contributor, 「車社会」(pp. 488-489),「若者文化」(pp. 496-497))

丸善出版, Jan, 2018 (ISBN: 9784621302149)
Surviving sexism in academia : strategies for feminist leadership

Cole, Kirsti, Hassel, Holly (Role: Contributor, Diane Kiino-Rodriguez, Yuko Itatsu, Yuko Takahashi, “STEM education in Japan: Examining the pipeline for female leadership,” (pp. 69-79))

Routledge, 2017 (ISBN: 9781138696846)
香港を知るための60章

吉川, 雅之, 倉田, 徹 (Role: Contributor, 「英語教育：その原動力と歪み」pp. 251-254)

明石書店, Mar, 2016 (ISBN: 9784750342535)
学問への招待

東京大学教養学部 (Role: Contributor, 「レジャーに隠されたミステリー」(pp. 197-210))

東京大学出版会, Jul, 2015 (ISBN: 9784130033459)
『同性愛と同性婚の政治学：ノーマルの虚像』

Tetsu Motoyama, Reiko Wakita, Yuko Itatsu, Kenta Kato (Role: Joint translator) (Original Author(s): Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal, An argument, about homosexuality)

Jul, 2015
東大ing : 現役生が語る東大の今

板津木綿子 (Role: Contributor, 「受験の先にあるものを見越して」(p. 60))

東京大学新聞社,図書新聞 (発売), Jul, 2013 (ISBN: 9784886113702)
『プログレッシブ和英中辞典』第４版

近藤いね子, 高野フミ編集

小学館, 2011 (ISBN: 9784095102542)
現代アメリカのキーワード

矢口, 祐人, 吉原, 真里 (Role: Contributor, 「アヴェニューQ」(pp. 27-29))

中央公論新社, Aug, 2006 (ISBN: 4121018575)
南加静岡県人会１００周年記念誌

Ann Igarashi, Yuko Itatsu (Role: Joint editor)

2005

Presentations

3

Digitally empowered and women-led development in Asia (panelist)

Yuko Itatsu

Mar 22, 2024, Sasakawa Peace Foundation Invited
Panel discussant: The future of liberal arts and educational transformation

Yuko Itatsu

Educational transformation at the University of Tokyo, Mar 15, 2024, Komaba Organization for Educational Excellence (KOMEX), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Queering AI

Yuko Itatsu

The Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies, Feb 21, 2024, Sydney Social Science and Humanities Advance Research Centre (SSSHARC) Invited
Understanding Business and Society through AI

Yuko Itatsu

Venture Cafe Tokyo, Feb 1, 2024, Women in AI Japan
AI and Water: Social implications of the latest technology

Yuko Itatsu

Japan Water Works Association, Shizuoka Prefectural Division, Seminar for Water Technology Management, Jan 29, 2024 Invited
Japan AI Alignment Symposium 2024 (Panelist)

Japan AI Alignment Symposium 2024, Jan 20, 2024, Mitsubachi Invited
The social acceptance of AI: From a cross-cultural perspective

Yuko Itatsu

Social ICT Research Center Symposium "ICT will bring societal futures", Dec 21, 2023, The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the Social ICT Research Center Invited
Discussant for Dr Jennifer Robertson's lecture "Securitainment: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance"

Jennifer Robertson, Yuko Itatsu

Tokyo College-B'AI Global Forum lecture, Nov 27, 2023, Tokyo College; B'AI Global Forum
Media representation of female robots

Yuko Itatsu

MeDi-B'AI Symposium "How gender is problematized in media", Nov 25, 2023, MeDi
Talk session "'You 'and 'us' and seen through generative AI"

Yuko Itatsu, Kotaro Osawa, Ayuko Sakurai

Professional skills behind words, Nov 12, 2023, Miraikan: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Social Justice in the AI era

Data Summit Edinburgh 2023, Nov 3, 2023, The Data Lab Innovation Centre, University of Edinbugh Invited
How AI and data are influencing culture

Marion Francis, Maya Van Leempu, Jess Aslan, Sarah Schofield, Yuko Itatsu

Data Summit Edinburgh 2023, Nov 2, 2023, The Data Lab, University of Edinbugh
AI and Social Justice: Trustworthy, ethical and inclusive connections

Yuko Itatsu, Jen Ang, Marisa De Andrade, Calum McDonald

Data Fest Fringe; AI Fringe, Oct 31, 2023, Scottish AI Alliance Invited
The relationship between the attitudes of the use of AI and diversity awareness: Comparisons between Japan, the US, Germany and South Korea

Yuko Ikkatai, Yuko Itatsu, Tilman Hartwig, Jooeun Noh, Naohiro Takanashi, Yujin Yaguchi, Kaori Hayashi, Hiromi M Yokoyama

All about artificial intelligence: Poster presentations by the Institute for AI and Beyond, University of Tokyo, Oct 10, 2023, Institute for AI and Beyond, University of Tokyo
Educational use of latest techology from ELSI perspectives

Ako Imai, Yuko Murakami, Kei Kanoh, Yuko Itatsu

Japan Society for Educational Technology Fall National Conference, Sep 16, 2023, Japan Society for Educational Technology
AI literacy for inclusive education

Japan Society for Educational Technology Fall National Conference, Sep 16, 2023, Japan Society for Educational Technology Invited
The future of higher education with AI

Yuko Itatsu

Sep 15, 2023
The geopolitics of artificial intelligence

Northwestern University - Univ of Tokyo research workshop, Sep 5, 2023, B'AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, Univ of Tokyo
AI and social minorities

Jing Forum, Aug 11, 2023
LGBTQ student support in Japanese higher education: Information accessibility on university websites

Berkshire conference for women historians, Jul 1, 2023

Professional Memberships

Works

Komaba Times

2012 - Present Other
Digital Mosaic of Los Angeles County USGS 6 Minute Topographical Quadrangles, 1900-1942

Philip Ethington, Yuko Itatsu

2005 Other

Research Projects

B'AI Global Forum Project: Research on norms, ethics and praxis for a truly gender equal society and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI age

University of Tokyo, Institute for AI and Beyond, Aug, 2020 - 2030
Historicizations of International Voyages to and from Yokohama

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026
The Activities of International Relief and Support for Occupied Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026
移民の習い事・教え事の継承・活用・変容の基礎研究-方法論的ナショナリズムの相対化

平成28-31年度基盤研究（Ｃ）課題番号16K02011, JSPS, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Tomoko Ozawa, Michiyo Kitawaki, Yuko Itatsu
第二言語ライティング研究の現代的課題と解決のための将来構想-東アジアからの発信

平成24-27年度基盤研究（B）課題番号24320101, JSPS, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

Kyoko Oi, Masumi Narita, Mari Tanaka, Mariko Abe, Sachiko Yasuda, Yuko Itatsu

Social Activities

The future of higher education in the AI age

Guest, Host, Interviewer, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, University of Tokyo New York Office, Dec 14, 2023 - Dec 15, 2023
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann “Imagining democracy through the lens of learning machines”

Host

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, University of Tokyo, Oct 20, 2023
AI and Society

Lecturer

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Sapporo Daiichi High School, University of Tokyo, Hongo campus, Sep 30, 2023
AI and Society

Lecturer

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Fukuoka Prefecture Chikushigaoka High School Lab Visit at Univ of Tokyo, Aug 4, 2023
The 2nd GENEE Symposium “Social Challenges Brought by Generative AI: Data Bias, Fake News, and Disordered Legal Systems”

Commentator, Planner

Generative AI and Educational Environment Research Project (GENEE) , Collaborative Research Organization of Educational Technology at the University of Tokyo, Aug 3, 2023
commemorate the publication of the book, “AI kara yomitoku shakai: kenryokuka suru saishin gijutsu (Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power)”

Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Jul 28, 2023
Women in AI APAC – AI for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Panelist, Host

Women in AI APAC, WAI Summit 2023: AI for Good, Sydney, Australia, Jun 14, 2023 - Jun 15, 2023
How do we deal with the spread of artificial intelligence?

Guest

NHK, Nichiyo Touron, Apr 16, 2023
Invisibility in language: Critical theories and critical studies on language

Host, Planner

Itatsu Lab, University of Tokyo, Komaba campus, Feb 11, 2023
Dr. Maartje Roelofsen and Dr. Richard Carter-White, "Embodiment, Deferral and (Dis)inhibition in learning and teaching geography with VR"

Host, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Dec 6, 2022
Dr Shaolu Yu, "Between Black and White: Chinese grocery stores in the American South during the Jim Crow Era"

Host, Planner

Itatsu Lab, Oct 24, 2022
Lecture by Dr Aynne Kokas “Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty”

Host, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Aug 8, 2022
鮎川ぱて氏「テクノロジーがもたらす『新しい搾取』に抗する―Vチューバーと『身体の客体化』をめぐる問題―」

Host, Planner

東京大学B'AIグローバル・フォーラム, B’AIグローバル・フォーラム研究シリーズ「レジャーにおける格差・差別・スティグマ」, Aug 4, 2022
Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Academy

Panelist

University of Tokyo, Global Faculty Development, GFD Diversity Series, Mar 23, 2022
Ivana Bartoletti, "Power, Politics, & AI: Building a Better Future"

Host, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, https://baiforum.jp/en/events/en020/, Aug 30, 2021
Dr Phebe Vayanos, Towards Robust, Interpretable, and Fair Social and Public Health Interventions

Host, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Aug 27, 2021
Dr Ana Beduschi, “Artificial intelligence and digital technologies at the border: Migration and human rights considerations”

Host, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, Aug 24, 2021
「コーダ：個として、集団として」（指定討論者）

Commentator

第３回コーダ自主研究会, Aug 21, 2021
潮とわたしたちーーあるいは、大学でできること

Lecturer

茨城県立土浦第一高等学校, Aug 11, 2021
“Gender Justice in the AI Era: A dialogue on engagement and activism”

Host, Planner

University of Tokyo, B'AI Global Forum, https://youtu.be/gt72nQUDNiI, Mar 17, 2021

Media Coverage

The surprising new ideas coming from AI

Nature, Nature Index Japan, Mar 9, 2023 Other

Other

Internship for Japanese textile specialist

Jun, 2003 - Jun, 2004

A 12-month internship for Gloria Gonick, Visiting Curator (Specialist in Japanese textiles) at UCLA Fowler Museum.
Internship, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

May, 2001 - Aug, 2001

Three month Internship for the Oral History Project at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.