Imaeda, Yoshiro

Yoshiro Imaeda (Japanese: 今枝 由郎, Hepburn: Imaeda Yoshirō; born 1947) is a Japanese-born Tibetologist who has spent his career in France. He is director of research emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Born in Aichi Prefecture, Imaeda graduated from the Otani University Faculty of Letters, where he studied with Shoju Inaba, under whose advice he pursued graduate studies in France, where he earned his Ph.D. at Paris VII. He began work at the CNRS in 1974. Between 1981 and 1990, he worked as an adviser to the National Library of Bhutan. In 1995, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also held a visiting appointment at Columbia University. Imaeda's research has focused on the Tibetan documents of the Dunhuang manuscripts, but he has also translated the poems of the 6th Dalai Lama, and produced a catalog of Kanjur texts.