Kazumi Yagasaki, Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, is a nutritional and physiological biochemist. He initially completed a Bachelor's course in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He then completed Master's and Doctoral courses at the Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in March 1976. Professor Yagasaki then continued to study biochemical pharmacology at Kyorin Central Research Institute (~September 1983), before moving to the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) as a lecturer (October 1983–August 1985), associate professor (August 1985–March 1996), and professor (April 1996–March 2013) in the field of nutritional, physiological, and functional food sciences, i.e., food pharmacology (= bromatology, a neology). He studied as a visiting scientist with the Ministry of Education, Japan, and in the departments of Medical Nutrition and Pathology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (August 1987–September 1988). He was also a project professor at Utsunomiya University (September 2014–March 2019).