Yoko Arisaka

Yoko Arisaka is currently Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Hildesheim, in a German Research Foundation project, “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” (2025–2028). During 2024–2025, she served as Roche Research Chair at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. From 2019 to 2024 she was a research associate with the German Research Foundation project, “Histories of Philosophy from a Global Perspective” at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. She had been a Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophy Hannover from 2009 to2011. Before coming to Germany in 2005, she had been Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco (1996–2007). She was born in Kamakura, Japan, but moved to California in 1980. Her areas of research include modern Japanese philosophy (especially Nishida), phenomenology, political philosophy (critical theory), gender theories, and philosophy of race.