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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>

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>

Hall's 1968 book ''Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan'', co-edited with [[Marius Jansen]], was perhaps the first academic volume in English to use the phrase "early modern Japan" in its title.<ref>David Howell, "Introduction: Genealogies of Japanese Early Modernity," in Howell (ed.), ''The New Cambridge History of Japan'', vol 2, Cambridge University Press (2024), p4.</ref>

Hall's 1968 book ''Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan'', co-edited with [[Marius Jansen]], was perhaps the first academic volume in English to use the phrase "early modern Japan" in its title.<ref>David Howell, "Introduction: Genealogies of Japanese Early Modernity," in Howell (ed.), ''The New Cambridge History of Japan'', vol 2, Cambridge University Press (2024), p4.</ref> His Introduction to the fourth volume of ''The Cambridge History of Japan'', published some 23 years later in 1991, has been identified as the first academic publication to explicitly discuss the meaning of the idea of "early modernity" for Japanese studies.<ref>Howell, p4n8.</ref>

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