Taeko Udagawa is a Japanese anthropologist specialising in ethnographic studies of Italy and Southern Europe. She is a professor at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. [1]
Udagawa completed a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Tokyo in 1978, and a master's of arts degree at the same university in 1984. [2] From 1985 to 1987 Udagawa studied cultural anthropology at the University of Rome. [3] She was a lecturer at Chubu University and Kanazawa University before joining the National Museum of Ethnology in 2002. [3]