John Howes

John F. Howes (1924–)[1] is Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for over three decades.[2]

Biography

Howes began his studies of the Japanese language in 1944 at the I.T.S. Naval School of Oriental Languages, and served in the general headquarters of the Allied Occupation of Japan. Returning to the United States, he obtained an undergraduate degree at Oberlin College, and then a MA doctorate from Columbia University with a thesis "Uchimura Kanzō; a biographical sketch", followed by a 1965 Ph.D for "Japan's enigma, the young Uchimura Kanzō".[3] Even before completing his doctoral work, he 1961 he joined the Department of Asian Studies at University of British Columbia, rising to the rank of Professor, and then Emeritus Professor. .[4][5] After retirement from UBC, he is teaching at Obirin University, near Tokyo.[6]

Academic work

Howes is a specialist in the modern Japanese intellectual history, concentrating on its Christian and pacifist thinkers, particularly Uchimura Kanzō (1861-1930) and Nitobe Inazō (1862-1933).

He published the following books:

He has also edited two volumes for the Japan Foundation: the 1983 Directory of Japan Specialists in Canada and Japan Studies in Canad, 1987.

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