2009 - present 
Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

2004 - 2008
Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

2003 
PhD in Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

1996
MA in Psychology, Kyoto University

Takada, A. (2018). Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, 54, 1-189. (Issue editor).

Takada, A. (2016). Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, 52, 1-187. (Issue editor).

Takada, A. (2015). Narratives on San ethnicity: The cultural and ecological foundations of lifeworld among the !Xun of north-central Namibia. Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press.

Takada, A. (2012). Pre-verbal infant-caregiver interaction. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. B. Schieffelin (Eds.), The Handbook of language socialization. Oxford: Blackwell (pp.56-80).