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Charlotte Diane Eubanks
Oct 15, 2013, 9:41:48 AM10/15/13
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Hello Ross,
Are you aware of the US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project on-going at University of Colorado?
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Charlotte Eubanks
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- American Scholars of Japan in WWII [1 Update]
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"Unger, James" <unge...@osu.edu> Oct 15 08:12AM
Herbert Passin (see obit in NYT 9 March 2003).
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Donald Keene and William Theodore de Bary famously served in American Navy intelligence during World War II. I know there were many other great American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the US (and perhaps British) military services, and I am trying to compile a list. Any suggestions would be welcome.
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arntzens
Oct 15, 2013, 2:58:10 PM10/15/13
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I have two names to add to your list.
Leon Hurvitz, scholar of Japanese and Chinese Buddhism, who held a position at the University of Washington and then moved to the University of British Columbia in 1972. Hurvitz was a scholar of Latin and Greek before the war, but was assigned to learn Japanese. Because he was a student of classical languages, he started to study classical Japanese on his own while serving in American Navy intelligence. He always said that classical Japanese was the most beautiful language he had ever encountered after classical Greek. After the war, however, his research interest switched to the transmission of Buddhism across East Asia and he learned Sanskrit, Pali, classical Chinese, and Tibetan to pursue that topic. He is best known as a scholar of Chinese Buddhism, thanks to his translation of the Lotus Sutra according to the Chinese version of Kumarajiva (Columbia UP, 1976), but his research was based on an exhaustive knowledge of modern Japanese scholarship on Buddhism, and he taught classical Japanese at UBC for his whole career there.
John Howes, another scholar at UBC who served in the American occupation force in Japan and went on to become a historian of modern Japan. See tribute to him on his retirement from UBC, http://www.asia.ubc.ca/people1/john-howes/ , which does not however mention his military service.
Sonja Arntzen
Leon Hurvitz, scholar of Japanese and Chinese Buddhism, who held a position at the University of Washington and then moved to the University of British Columbia in 1972. Hurvitz was a scholar of Latin and Greek before the war, but was assigned to learn Japanese. Because he was a student of classical languages, he started to study classical Japanese on his own while serving in American Navy intelligence. He always said that classical Japanese was the most beautiful language he had ever encountered after classical Greek. After the war, however, his research interest switched to the transmission of Buddhism across East Asia and he learned Sanskrit, Pali, classical Chinese, and Tibetan to pursue that topic. He is best known as a scholar of Chinese Buddhism, thanks to his translation of the Lotus Sutra according to the Chinese version of Kumarajiva (Columbia UP, 1976), but his research was based on an exhaustive knowledge of modern Japanese scholarship on Buddhism, and he taught classical Japanese at UBC for his whole career there.
John Howes, another scholar at UBC who served in the American occupation force in Japan and went on to become a historian of modern Japan. See tribute to him on his retirement from UBC, http://www.asia.ubc.ca/people1/john-howes/ , which does not however mention his military service.
Sonja Arntzen
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