was a Japanese

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. He was for many years a professor at the

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Early life

Seiichi was born in Tokyo. He attended the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1925.

Career

Seiichi was a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo.Hall, John Whitney.
"Review: ''Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History'' by Seiichi Iwao; Burton Watson,"
''Monumenta Nipponica,'' Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 473-476. His contribution to Japanese historiography is measured in the effect his teaching and example produced in a younger generation of students.National Committee of Japanese Historians. (1991)
''Historical studies in Japan (VII) 1983-1987'', pp. 51-53.
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Indonesian history

Iwao was considered a leading scholar in the colonial period of Indonesian history. His study of Japanese towns in South Asia before the Pacific War was published in . The research used documents of the

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in the archives of the Hague and Jakarta.

Japanese history

Iwao's research and writing covered a broad range, including his early work on Japanese emigrant communities in South Asia and his later work on the

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of national seclusion (''

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Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Seiichi Iwao,

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encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 7 languages and 1,500+ library holdings. * 1940 – ''Nan'yo Nihonmachi no kenkyu'' (1940) * 1943 – ''Early Japanese settlers in the Philippines'' (1943) * 朱印船貿易史の研究 (1958) * 朱印船と日本町 (1962) * 鎖国 (1966) * 近世の洋学と海外交涉 (1979) * 荷蘭時代台灣史論文集 (2001) * 1982 – ''Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History'' (1982), with Burton Watson * 2002 &ndash
''Dictionnaire historique du Japon'', Vol. I Vol. II
2002), with Teizō Iyanaga, Susumu Ishii, Shōichirō Yoshida ''et al.''

Affiliations

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, elected 1965. * Franco-Japanese Historical Society (''Societe Franco-Japonaise des Sciences Historiques''; ''Nichi-Futsu Rekishi Gakkai'') * Japan-Netherlands Institute (''Nichi-Ran Gakkai'')

Honors

* Imperial Academy, Imperial Academy Prize, 1941Japan Academy
Imperial Academy Prize, 1941
"A Study on the History of the Japanese Quarters in the South Seas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries". *

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, 1970.

Notes

References

* Hall, John Whitney.
"Review: ''Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History'' by Seiichi Iwao; Burton Watson,"
''Monumenta Nipponica,'' Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 473–476. * National Committee of Japanese Historians. (1991)
''Historical studies in Japan (VII) 1983-1987''
(''Nihon ni okeru rekishigaku no hattatsu to genjō''). Leiden:

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. ; ; * Soedjatmoko. (2007)
''An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography.''
Jakarta: Equinox. ; : ''Some of this article's contents are derived from the Seiichi Iwao article on the

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