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Asakawa Kan'ichi was a pioneer in teaching and writing Japanese history in English. He taught at Yale University beginning in [[1906]], and played a key role in the beginnings of Yale's Japanese library collections.

His works include:
*''[[The Early Institutional Life of Japan|The Early Institutional Life of Japan: A Study in the Reform of 645 A.D.]]'' (1903)
*''The Russo-Japanese Conflict'' (1904)
*''The Documents of Iriki'' (1929)

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==References==
*Carol Gluck, “House of Mirrors–American History Writing on Japan.” In ''Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past'', Princeton University Press (1998).

[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]