Yoko Shioya

Yoko Shioya

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Yoko Shioya is a graduate of Music Dept. of the National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, majored in musicology. After moving to the United States in 1988, she became active as a contributing writer in the fields of culture and the arts for publications including the major Japanese newspapers such as Asahi Newspaper , the Sankei Newspaper and the weekly journal AERA . She also conducted numerous researchs on arts support systems in the U.S. for various Japanese organizations, corporations and regional government agencies and has continued to pose questions for Japanese society about the state of support for the arts through ongoing series of symposiums and reports to academic journals. Since 1997, Ms. Shioya joined Performing Arts department of Japan Society in N.Y. and succeeded the department’s head since 2003. In 2006 she was appointed as Artistic Director to lead Performing Arts and Film departments of the Society. Among her published books are New York: A City Coexisting with Artists (Maruzen Library, 1998) and Why Do Corporations Involve in Corporate Philanthropy? ” (Co-authored, Kigyo Mecenat Kyogikai, 2001).