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John Whitney Hall was one of the foremost historians of Japan in the Anglophone world in the postwar years. His work on pre-modern and early modern Japan forms an important foundation for much work on those periods today.
He was the son of M. Ernest Hall and Marjorie Whitney Hall.<ref>J.W. Hall, 'Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan'', Harvard University Press (1955), v-ix.</ref>
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==Selected Publications==
*“Notes on The Early Ch’ing Copper Trade With Japan,” ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 12, no. 3/4 (December 1, 1949), 444-461.
*''Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan'', Harvard University Press, 1955.
*''Goverment and Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700: A Study Based on Bizen Province'', Princeton University Press, 1966. (Republished by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999).
*“Rule by Status in Tokugawa Japan,” ''Journal of Japanese Studies'' 1:1 (1974), 39–49.
*(ed. with Toyota Takeshi), ''Japan in the Muromachi Age'', University of California Press, 1977. (Republished, Cornell University East Asia Program, 2001).
*(ed. with [[Nagahara Keiji]] and [[Kozo Yamamura]]), ''Japan Before Tokugawa'', Princeton University Press, 1981.
*(ed. with [[Marius Jansen]]), ''Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan'', Princeton University Press, 1968.
*“Terms and Concepts in Japanese Medieval History: An Inquiry into the Problems of Translation.” ''Journal of Japanese Studies'' 9, no. 1 (January 1, 1983): 1–32.
*(ed.) ''The Cambridge History of Japan'', vol. 4, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
==References==
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