Kwan-Ichi Asakawa

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Kwan-Ichi Asakawa (December 20, 1873 - August 10, 1948) was an American university professor and author of works on Japan. He was born at Nihonmatsu, Japan, and educated at the Fukushima Middle School, Waseda University Tokyo, Japan, Dartmouth College, and Yale University. He became the first Japanese professor at a major university in the United States.

He lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was professor at Waseda University (1906-07); instructor at Yale University (1907-10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910. He carried on special investigations in Japan, 1906-07 and 1917-19. Professor Asakawa was author of many works on Japan of sound dispassionate scholarship.

He dedicated himself to serving as a bridge between the United States and Japan to promote amicable relations.

Some of his remains are interred at Konjiki cemetery at his hometown of Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan, and others are interred at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.

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He wrote: The Early Institutional Life of Japan (1903); The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues (1904); The Origin of Feudal Land-Tenure in Japan (1914), and Some Aspects of Japanese Feudal Institutions (1918). His works also included contributions to the publications Japan edited by Capt. F. Brinkley (1904); the History of Nations Series (1907); China and the Far East (1910); Japan and Japanese-American Relations (1912); and The Pacific Ocean in History (1917).