Shunya Yoshimi Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo Born in Tokyo in 1957, Shunya Yoshimi is a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III). He graduated from the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, and subsequently completed the doctoral coursework of the Graduate School of Sociology. His research spans sociology, cultural studies, and media studies. His past teaching positions include associate professor at the University of Tokyo Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, associate professor and currently full professor at the university’s Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies. He has also served in multiple positions at The University of Tokyo, including Dean of the III and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies from 2006 to 2008; Director of the University of Tokyo Newspaper from 2009 to 2012; Vice President of the University of Tokyo, Director of the Educational Planning Office, and Director of the Center for the Development of Global Leadership Education from 2010 to 2014; and Director of the Historical Library of the University of Tokyo from 2010 to 2013. Other current posts include Vice Director of the University of Tokyo Archives (since 2014) and Director of the III’s Center for Contemporary Korean Studies (since 2015). He studies contemporary Japanese pop culture, everyday life, and cultural politics from the perspective of dramaturgy. His major works include Dramaturgy in the City (Kawade Bunko), The Politics of Exposition (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko), Cultural Sociology in the Media Age (Shinyosha), Voice of Capitalism (Kawade Bunko), Cultural Studies (Iwanami Shoten), Invitation to Media Cultural Studies (Yuhikaku), The World Expo and Postwar Japan (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko), Pro-America, Anti-America (Iwanami Shinsho), Post-postwar Society (Iwanami Shinsho), What Are Universities? (Iwanami Shinsho), Atoms for Dream (Chikuma Shinsho), and Surpassing America (Kobundo).