Yoshiharu Sekino
is a Japanese surgeon, explorer, travel writer, photographer and anthropologist. Biography
Sekino was born in 1949 in Tokyo. While a student at Hitotsubashi University, he cofounded and participated in a university team that descended the entire length of the Amazon, thereafter travelling around South America. He received a B.A. in law from Hitotsubashi University in 1975 and an M.D. from Yokohama City University School of Medicine in 1982. Since 2002 Sekino has been a professor of cultural anthropology at Musashino Art University. Great Journey
Sekino has worked as a surgeon in hospitals in western suburban Tokyo. He is better known for his travels in Peru and elsewhere in South America as well as in Africa, where his explorations into the origins of mankind were made into a television series, Gurēto jānī (, i.e., "Great Journey"), broadcast on Fuji Television and later available on DVDs. Starting in 1974, Sekino has published a stream of books about South America, anthropology, exploration, prehistoric demography, and more — some of which are primarily photographic. References

External links
"Doctor plans global trek to explore how Japanese got here". Japan Times, 6 July 2004. "Sekino Yoshiharu". The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett. 1949 births
Living people
People from Tokyo
Hitotsubashi University alumni
Japanese explorers
Japanese anthropologists
Japanese photographers
Japanese surgeons
20th-century travel writers
Japanese travel writers
Japanese educators
Japanese writers
Yokohama City University alumni