Ben-Ami Shillony (born October 28, 1937 (?), Poland) is

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Japanese history The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BC. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new invent ...

at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. His wife, until her death, was , professor emerita of French literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Selected publications

* ''Revolt in Japan''.

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, 1973. Translated into Japanese: ''Nihon no hanran'', Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1975. * ''Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan''.

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, Oxford, 1981. Paperback edition

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, 1991. Translated into Japanese: ''Uotaimu japan, Gogatsu Shobō'', 1991. * ''Yapan hamesoratit: tarbut ve-historia''. Schocken Publishing House, 1995. Revised and expanded edition, 2001. * ''Yapan hamodernit: tarbut ve-historia''. Schocken Publishing House, 1997. Revised and expanded edition, 2002. * ''The Jews and the Japanese''.

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, 1992. Translated into Japanese: ''Yudayajin to nihonjin no fushigina kankei'', Seikō Shobō, 2004. * ''Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony''. Japan Library, Curzon Press, 2000. * ''Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History''. Global Oriental, 2005. Translated into Japanese: ''Haha naru tennō'',

Kōdansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ...

, 2003. * ''The Emperors of Modern Japan''.

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, 2008. (Editor) * ''Yapan bemabat ishi''. Schocken Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 2011.

References

1937 births Living people Historians of Japan Israeli Japanologists Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Israeli expatriates in Japan {{Japan-historian-stub