Yoshi is a social anthropologist, specializing in global ocean governance and social equity. Yoshi completed his B.Sc. (1995), M.Sc. (1998), and Ph.D. (2006) in Anthropology at the University College London. He completed fieldwork in Palau, UK, Indonesia and Australia. Since 2011, Yoshi has been Director (Policy) at the Nereus Program, an interdisciplinary ocean research initiative between the non-profit Nippon Foundation and seventeen universities worldwide.