is a Japanese scholar of the history of science

History of science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....

 and the study of comparative civilization. Ito is an honorary professor of University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

 and International Research Center for Japanese Studies

International Research Center for Japanese Studies

The , or Nichibunken , is an inter-university research institute in Kyoto. Along with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the National Museum of Japanese History, and the National Museum of Ethnology, it is one of the National Institutes for the Humanities...

, and a professor of Reitaku University

Reitaku University

is a private university known as Reitaku in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The origin of Reitaku University is Moralogy School which was launched in 1935 and Reitaku University was established in 1950.-Department:College of Foreign Languages...

, and the Chairman of Japan Seaology Promotion Organization. He is also a former President of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations

International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations

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Ito was born in Tokyo, and obtained his bachelor's degree in literature from Tokyo University in 1953, his master's in 1955, and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

in 1964. Ito taught at the University of Tokyo, as Professor, from 1978 to 1989, and in International Research Center for Japanese Studies from 1989 to 1995, and in Reitaku University from 1995.

External links

• Prof. Shuntaro Ito (Japanese)