Ronald P. Toby (1942 — ) is an American historian, academic, writer and

Japanologist Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ...

Early life

Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1977.

Career

As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the

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, the

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Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

, and the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

.Press release
"First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to U.S. Is Subject of May 24 Lecture,"

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, April 16, 2010. Toby's academic specialization focuses on issues having to do with pre- and early-modern Japan. His book ''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan'' demonstrates that during the so-called "closed country" period in the Edo era, Japan was never truly closed to the outside world.

Select works

Tony's published writings encompass 52 works in 158 publications in 3 languages and 2,117 library holdings.http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82218767/ * 2019 &mdash
''Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850''
Leiden:Brill.
OCLC 1066182857
* 2004 &mdash
''Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1870''
with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OCLC 53388426
* 1983 &mdash
''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu.''
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
OCLC 182640041
* 1977 — ''The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia.'' Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University
OCLC 6909487
* 1974 — ''Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title.'' M.A. thesis, Columbia University
OCLC 45788706

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