Joyce Ackroyd
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Joyce Ackroyd was an Australian scholar of Japanese language and literature. She served as Professor of the University of Queensland's School of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s, which she energetically built up into one of Australia's main centres for Japanese studies.
Professor Ackroyd was awarded a higher degree at Cambridge University in 1951 for her study of Edo period Confucianist Arai Hakuseki's political career and writings. Her studies of Hakuseki culminated in her translations of Oritaku Shiba no Ki, published in 1980 as Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki, and the Tokushi yoron, published as Lessons from history : the Tokushi yoron in 1982.
Joyce Ackroyd was awarded the Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil) in 1982. The following year she was awarded the Yamagata BantÅ prize by the prefectural government of Osaka for her outstanding contributions to introducing Japanese culture abroad.
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