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May 9, 1926 – August 19, 2001 was a Japanese anthropologist who served as a professor emeritus at Kyoto University and as president of the Primate Society of Japan. He is considered a founder of the discipline of Japanese primatology.
He entered Kyoto University, Faculty of Science. He majored in ethology under Kinji Imanishi, eventually becoming one of the leading figures in Japanese primatology. He received a BS in March 1951, and became a researcher at Japan Monkey Centre, Inuyama, Aichi. He observed Japanese macaque at Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden. The Nikkei: (2016.4.22) In 1962, he submitted his doctoral dissertation titled "Communication of wild Japanese macaque"(野生ニホンザルのコミュニケーションに関する研究). CiNii (dissertation)
He became an assistant professor at Kyoto University, Faculty of Science in October 1962, and was promoted to professor in 1981. He founded the Primate Research Institute and the Center for African Area Studies at that university in 1986, and he served as the first chief of the latter center until his retirement. CAAS He retired from Kyoto University in 1990 and became a professor at Kobe Gakuin University (until 1998).
He died at age 75 of pneumonia.
As with most Japanese primatologists, his early research was on (Macaca fuscata), but most of his career focused on African primates, especially ( Pan troglodytes). He started research in Africa in 1958. The majority of his work was based around the social structures of primate society.
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