Tomo Shibata graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arts and Sciences College, Cornell University, and received a doctorate with high distinction from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, France (Catharine A. MacKinnon at the University of Michigan Law School served on her doctoral defense committee). Shibata made a number of oral statements at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (now called Council). She has written newspaper opinion articles including "A 'socially accepted' act of child abuse" in The Japan Times, "Organized Stalking Must Stop" in The Ithaca Journal, articles in journals including "Japan's Wartime Mass-Rape Camps and Continuing Sexual Human-Rights Violations" in The U.S.-Japan Women's Journal and "Undoing Sexual Objectification in the Japanese Socio-Juridical Context" in The International Journal of Japanese Sociology, and a book in Japanese titled Child Sexual Abuse and Human Rights, which is held by 160 university libraries in Japan.