Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American historian, academic, writer, translator 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 Japanes ...

.Conrad Totman Papers (MS 447). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst; retrieved 2013-3-22. Totman was a Professor Emeritus at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

Early life

Totman was born in

Conway, Massachusetts Conway is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,761 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Conway was first settled by English colonists ...

. He studied at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...

; and he earned a Ph.D. in Asian history at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

in 1964. He enlisted in the army in 1953. He served with the 8th Preventive Medicine Control Detachment in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

arriving 5 June 1954, just after the

Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

Career

Totman taught Japanese history at the

University of California at Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

, at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, and Yale. He retired from Yale in 1997.

Select works

Totman's published writings encompass 39 works in 145 publications in 4 languages and 7,885 library holdings. WorldCat Identities

Toman, Conrad D.
/ref> * ''Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843,'' 1967 * ''The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868,'' 1980

1981 * ''Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun,'' 1983 * ''The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita,'' 1985 * ''The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan,'' 1989 * ''Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan,'' 1990

1993 * ''The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan,'' 1995 * ''A History of Japan,'' 2000 * ''Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective,'' 2004 * ''Japan's Imperial Forest, Goryorin, 1889-1945: with a supporting study of the Kan/Min division of woodland in early Meiji Japan, 1871-76,'' 2007

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External links

Yale faculty website
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