Shirō Hattori Explained

was a Japanese academic and writer.^[1] Born in Kameyama, Mie, Hattori was a linguist known particularly for his work on premodern Japanese and Japonic languages and the Ainu language. He was a professor at the University of Tokyo.^[2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Shiro Hattori, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 150+ works in 200+ publications in 8 languages and 1,300+ library holdings.^[3]

• 音聲學 (1951)
• (1959)^[2]
• (1964)
• 音韻論と正書法: 新日本式つづり方の提唱 (1979)

Awards and honors

• Order of Culture
• Indiana University Prize for Altaic Studies, 1983
• Australian Academy of the Humanities, Honorary Fellow, 1984

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128

External links

• Australian Academy of the Humanities, obituary

Notes and References

1. Library of Congress authority file, Hattori Shirō n83-213446
2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hattori Shirō" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File .
3. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities