Yuki Konagaya

is a Japanese professor specializing in the history and cultural anthropology of Central Asia and Mongolia.

Biography Yuki Konagaya was born in Toyonaka, Osaka prefecture in 1957. She entered Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters. She went to Mongolian People's Republic as the first female international student and studied at National University of Mongolia in September 1979 (one year). She completed a Bachelor's degree in 1981 and a Master's degree in 1983. and visited Inner Mongolia for her research. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1983 and became a professor in 2003.

Publications Konagaya, Y., Lkhagvasu̇rėn, I., & Rossabi, M. (2011). Socialist devotees and dissenters: Three twentieth-century Mongolian leaders. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Konagaya, Y., Lkhagvasu̇rėn, I., & Rossabi, M. (2014). Mongolia's transition from socialism to captitalism: Four views. Suita-shi: Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan, Heisei 26. Konagaya, Y. (2016). Northeast Asian borders: History, politics, and local societies. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.

Awards and honors 2025 - Person of Cultural Merit