Dr. Yutaka Suga is Professor of Folklore at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. He is a folklorist who studies the community based management of natural resources and cultural resources, the theory of Commons, the international cultural regimes and policies of intangible cultural heritages, and the possibility of Public Folklore in Japan. His primary fieldworks are in Japan and China. He teaches a course in folklore theory at Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.