Juichi Yamagiwa
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Preceded byHiroshi Matsumoto
Succeeded byNagahiro Minato
Born21 February 1952[1]
Japan
Alma materKyoto University, Japan
Juichi Yamagiwa | |
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山極 寿一 | |
| President of Kyoto University, Japan | |
| In office October 2014 – September 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Hiroshi Matsumoto |
| Succeeded by | Nagahiro Minato |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 February 1952[1] Japan |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Profession | University President |
| Scientific career | |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Thesis | (1987) |
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| Kanji | 山極 寿一 | ||||||||||
| Hiragana | やまぎわ じゅいち | ||||||||||
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Juichi Yamagiwa (Japanese: 山極 寿一) (born on February 21, 1952)[1] is a Japanese anthropologist[2] and the former president of Kyoto University.[3]
Yamagiwa received his bachelor's degree in science from Kyoto University in 1971. He then received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in science from the same university in 1977 and 1987 respectively.[1]