Kimiko Itō (位藤 紀美子, Itō Kimiko; born 1945) is a Japanese pedagogue who specialises in language pedagogy for the Japanese language. Born in Ehime Prefecture, she spent over thirty-five years as part of the staff at Kyoto University of Education. After spending months as a professor at Biwako-Gakuin University, she returned to the Kyoto University of Education to become president after Mitsuyo Terada resigned as a result of a sexual violence scandal involving the university's students, serving from 2009 until 2016.
Source: “Kimiko Itō (pedagogue)”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt
