Masao Yokota is professor of psychology at Nihon University. He is former chair of the Japan Society for Animation Studies and current chair of the Japanese Psychological Association and Japanese Union of Psychological Associations. He is coeditor (with Tze-yue G. Hu) of Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives and (with Tze-yue G. Hu and Gyongyi Horvath) of Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
