Kwan-Ichi Asakawa
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Kwan-Ichi Asakawa (1873-1948) was an American university professor and author of works on Japan. He was born at Nihonmatsu, Japan, and educated at the Fukushima Middle School, Waseda University Tokyo, Japan, Dartmouth College, and Yale University. He lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was professor at Waseda University (1906-07); instructor at Yale University (1907-10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910. He carried on special investigations in Japan, 1906-07 and 1917-19. Professor Asakawa was author of many works on Japan of sound dispassionate scholarship. He wrote: The Early Institutional Life of Japan (1903); The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues (1904); The Origin of Feudal Land-Tenure in Japan (1914), and Some Aspects of Japanese Feudal Institutions (1918). His works also included contributions to the publications Japan edited by Capt. F. Brinkley (1904); the History of Nations Series (1907); China and the Far East (1910); Japan and Japanese-American Relations (1912); and The Pacific Ocean in History (1917).
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