SPEAKERS
YOSHIOKA Rafaela
Project Assistant Professor, Center for Global
Education, the University of Tokyo
PROFILE
Dr. Rafaela Yoshioka is the lead professor for the Tokyo Forum Youth Session and teaches Global Collaboration Exercise, a collaborative course that brings together students from UTokyo and South Korea to explore global challenges. Her areas of expertise are migration studies and sociology of education. As a second-generation immigrant in Japan, she seeks to promote migrant wellbeing and foster multicultural coexistence through both research and practice.
Major publications include:
“Expanding Translocal Capability: Ethnic Empowerment Education and Social Inclusion of Brazilians in Japan,” International Journal of Technology and Inclusive Education, No.14, 2025.
