Paul Waley, a great-nephew of the scholar and translator

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, is senior lecturer in

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at the

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, and the author of books an articles on Tokyo and other topics in

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, Chinese urban geography, the history of Japan and related fields. Waley started his career as a

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in Taiwan. In 1977 he moved to Japan, and became a reporter and columnist at ''

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''. During this time in Japan he published his two books about Tokyo, a city for which his affection is very apparent. He later returned to the United Kingdom, completed his

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and then assumed a position at the University of Leeds in 1992. Subsequently, his research expanded from a focus on Japan to take into account the contemporary urban geography of China,

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, Indonesia, and

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where he remained a resident.https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/staff/1115/dr-paul-waley Paul Waley retired from teaching in 2018 but retains emeritus status at the University of Leeds School of Geography.

Selected bibliography

* ''Tokyo Now and Then: An Explorer's Guide''. Weatherhill, 1984 * ''Tokyo: City of Stories''. Weatherhill, 1991 * (co-edited with and Nicolas Fiévé), ''Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo''. Routledge Curzon, 2003 .

References

External links

Paul Waley's home page at the University of Leeds
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