Yoichi Miyamoto is Executive Vice President for Global and General Education at the University of Osaka, Japan. He is also Director of the University of Osaka Libraries and Director of the Global Japanese Studies Education and Research Incubator, as well as Vice Director of the Institute for Transdisciplinary Graduate Degree Programs.
Yoichi has promoted the internationalisation of the University, particularly by designing multilingual collaborative learning environments on campus. Attending the Yale University Program in 2024, organised by the Leaders’ Forum on Promoting the Evolution of Academia for Knowledge Society (PEAKS), provided him with a variety of new perspectives on global engagement. He was also awarded the American Council on Education (ACE) Japan Higher Education Executive Fellowship in 2025.
He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Connecticut in 1994. His research interests include theoretical linguistics and language acquisition. He taught linguistics and Japanese at Ohio University for three years before accepting an associate professor position at the University of Osaka in 1997. Since 2017, he has been a Professor of Linguistics at the Graduate School of Humanities and the Graduate School of Language and Culture. In 2017, he was awarded the JCHAT Best Paper Award by the Japanese Society for Language Sciences.
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