Kan'ichi Asakawa
Kan'ichi Asakawa was born in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on December 20th, 1873 and is the Japanese Historian. At the age of 74, Kan'ichi Asakawa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Asakawa lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was a professor at Waseda University (1906–07); an instructor at Yale University (1907–10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910. He carried on special research in Japan in 1906–07 and 1917–19. He became a professor at Yale University in 1937, becoming the first Japanese professor at a major American university. He was the author of many works on Japan, his scholarly interest being medieval history. He taught history at Yale for 35 years. Among those he influenced was John Whitney Hall.
In 1907, Asakawa was appointed curator of the East Asian Collection at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library.
Asakawa helped found Asian studies in the United States.