Ronald Toby

Ronald P. Toby (1942 — ) is an American historian, academic, writer and Japan studies expert.

Early life

Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1977.[1]

Career

Toby has been a history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University and the University of Tokyo.[2]

Select works

In an overview of writings by and about Toby, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 18 works in 30+ publications in 3 languages and 790+ library holdings.[3]

  • Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title, 1974
  • The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia, 1977
  • State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1983
  • Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1870, 2004, with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō

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