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Seiichi Iwao (岩生 成一, Iwao Seiichi, June 2, 1900 – March 21, 1988) was a Japanese academic, an historian and author. He was for many years a professor at the University of Tokyo.




Early life


Seiichi was born in Tokyo. He attended the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1925.




Career


Seiichi was a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. His contribution to Japanese historiography is measured in the effect his teaching and example produced in a younger generation of students.




= Indonesian history

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Iwao was considered a leading scholar in the colonial period of Indonesian history. His study of Japanese towns in South Asia before the Pacific War was published in A study of Japanese Towns in the South (南洋日本町の研究, Nan'yo Nihonmachi no kenkyu). The research used documents of the Dutch East Indies Company in the archives of the Hague and Jakarta.




= Japanese history

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Iwao's research and writing covered a broad range, including his early work on Japanese emigrant communities in South Asia and his later work on the Edo period of national seclusion (sakoku).




Selected works


In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Seiichi Iwao, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 7 languages and 1,500+ library holdings.

1940 – A study of Japanese Towns in the South Seas (南洋日本町の研究) Nan'yo Nihonmachi no kenkyu (1940)
1943 – Early Japanese settlers in the Philippines (1943)
朱印船貿易史の研究 (1958)
朱印船と日本町 (1962)
鎖国 (1966)
近世の洋学と海外交涉 (1979)
荷蘭時代台灣史論文集 (2001)
1982 – Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History (1982), with Burton Watson
2002 – Dictionnaire historique du Japon, Vol. I; Vol. II(2002), with Teizō Iyanaga, Susumu Ishii, Shōichirō Yoshida et al.




Affiliations


Japan Academy, elected 1965.
Franco-Japanese Historical Society (Societe Franco-Japonaise des Sciences Historiques; Nichi-Futsu Rekishi Gakkai)
Japan-Netherlands Institute (Nichi-Ran Gakkai)




Honors


Imperial Academy, Imperial Academy Prize, 1941
Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1970.




Notes






References


Hall, John Whitney. "Review: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History by Seiichi Iwao; Burton Watson," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 473–476.
National Committee of Japanese Historians. (1991). Historical studies in Japan (VII) 1983-1987 (Nihon ni okeru rekishigaku no hattatsu to genjō). Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-4-634-65040-4; ISBN 978-90-04-09292-1; OCLC 257200566
Soedjatmoko. (2007). An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography. Jakarta: Equinox. ISBN 978-979-3780-44-3; OCLC 92737622
Some of this article's contents are derived from the Seiichi Iwao article on the Japanese Wikipedia.

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