The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Japan
This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 50th most number of Historians behind Georgia and Sudan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Historians of all time. This list of famous Japanese Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edwin O. Reischauer (1910 - 1990)
With an HPI of 49.31, Edwin O. Reischauer is the most famous Japanese Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. Together with George M. McCune, a scholar of Korea, in 1939 he developed the McCune–Reischauer romanization of the Korean language. Reischauer became involved in helping create US policy toward East Asia during and after World War II. President John F. Kennedy appointed Reischauer as the United States Ambassador to Japan, where he served from 1961 to 1966. Reischauer founded the Japan Institute at Harvard University in 1973 and was its founding director. It was later named in honor of him.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1910 and 1910. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Edwin O. Reischauer.
