Professor was a Japanese historian who specialized in early

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ...

history.

Biography

He was born in

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. He spent his early life in

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until he entered

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in 1941. He was appointed to an assistant professor in 1949 at

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and taught there until 1992. He led various academies. In 1964 he participated in launching the annual "Nojiriko Khuriltai", a conference of Altaist scholars. He approached the history of the

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though

literature. As a member of a study group on Manchu, he published the '' Manwen Laodang'' with romanized text, word-by-word translation, complete translation and notes from 1955 to 1963. He frequently visited

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

to study the source archive of the ''Manwen Laodang'', namely the ''

Jiu Manzhou Dang ''Jiu Manzhou Dang'' (; Manchu: ''Fe Manju Dangse'') is a set of Manchu archives stored at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It is the sourcebook of '' Manwen Laodang'' and a primary source of early Manchu history. It is often called ...

''. After Japan severed diplomatic relations with the ROC, he promoted the investigation of Manchu archives stored in Beijing. He also made efforts to identify historical materials that scattered around Europe and the U.S.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kanda, Nobuo 1921 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Japanese historians Historians of China University of Tokyo alumni Japanese expatriates in Taiwan