Dr. John Howes

Dr. Howes has studied and worked in the Japanese field since he began to study the Japanese language in 1944 at the I.T.S. Naval school of Oriental Languages. Shortly thereafter he served in the general headquarters of the Allied Occupation of Japan before returning to finish his undergraduate training at Oberlin College in the United States. Graduate work at Columbia University was followed by teaching Japan Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from 1961 to 1990. During this time he actively fostered an interest in Japan throughout Canadian universities. Since 1990 he has taught at Obirin University in Tokyo. His research centres on modern Japanese intellectual history and in particular the lives and works of Uchimura Kanzo and Nitobe Inazo.

Adapted from "The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin No. 10", December 1994, compiled by Hugh Wilkinson.
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