is a Japanese scholar of the

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and the study of comparative civilization. Itō is an honorary professor of

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and

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, and a professor of

Reitaku University is a private university in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders ...

, and the Chairman of Japan Seaology Promotion Organization. He is also a former president of the

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. Itō was born in Tokyo, and obtained his bachelor's degree in literature from Tokyo University in 1953, his master's in 1955, and

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from

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in 1964. Itō taught at the University of Tokyo, as Professor, from 1978 to 1989, and in International Research Center for Japanese Studies from 1989 to 1995, and in Reitaku University from 1995.

Bibliography

*Ito, S. ''The Medieval Latin Translation of the

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of Euclid''. Tokyo University Press, 1980 and Birkhauser, 1998.

Honours

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(2020)

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Prof. Shuntaro Ito
(Japanese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ito, Shuntaro 1930 births Living people Academic staff of Reitaku University 20th-century Japanese historians Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Historians of mathematics Historians of science University of Tokyo alumni Persons of Cultural Merit