Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Sociology, Kyoto Sangyo University.  Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University and Osaka University ,Japan.

In April 2017 Professor Kimio ITO took up Professor of the Department of Contemporary Sociology, Faculty of Contemporary Sociology Kyoto Sangyo University, and he is now Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University and Osaka University. He is specializing in Cultural Sociology , Political Sociology and Gender Studies.