ジョン・ハミルトン（John Hamilton）教授◆経歴
1961–65
Eton College, Windsor (Angus Macindoe 先生’s father was the Provost then. He taught me
Latin (Horace’s Odes))1966–69
University College, Oxford (My family college.....I studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics(PPE). It was really just the beginning of a lifetime study. My politics tutor was Maurice
Shock, who published very little. But he was the tutor of Bill Clinton, later President of theUnited States. Univ was the college of Herbert Hart, Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence. I
remember pushing his car in Logic Lane.)
1970–73
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in London, Paris, and Hong Kong
1975–79
Doshisha University, Kyoto (as a part timer)
1981–2017 Aichi University
ENGLISH TEACHING*1986
The Vicinity of Chichester*1987
How should a native speaker teach English to university students in Japan*1989
Describing a first attempt to teach about Human Rights.
*1993
Premier Zhou Enlai’s ideas on English teaching and their practical application in English Classes

CHINA EXPLORATIONSVisits to Nankai University (Pang Songfeng 逄通丰 and Imaizumi 先生 welcomed me. I always took Pang
Songfeng a bottle of whisky when I visited Nankai after that.)(Articles then)* Marco Polo and Japan マルコ・ポーロと日本*1992
China Notebook 1986–1991 (I particularly enjoyed travelling round China on the trains withanother bottle of whisky, talking in Chinese with whoever would talk with me.........This
article in Chinese is about that......You can’t do this now because the trains go too fast...)This is the flea that brought the plague from Yunnan to Europe in the 14th century
Visits to the Central University of Nationalities
北京中央民族⼤学民族学（张海洋）Visits to Fudan University in Shanghai (Naran Balik ⽼师)Visits to Chongqing Daxue (Dai Qifu)*Sichuan and Chongqing May 2015(On this visit with the help of Aidai’s Matsuoka Masako 先生 I researched in Chengdu about a Han Dynasty
pot now in my study office 1515 at Sasashima. I also researched in Chongqing about the murder of theEnglishman by the wife of 薄熙来)

History of Science University, Beijing (HanQi 韩琦)
Visits to the two brothers Ye Nianlun 叶念伦 (married to Cuicui 曲毳毳) and Ye Nianxian in Dianmen(Gongjian Hutong) and correcting the English
translation of his mother Yuanyin’s book ‘Flying against the Wind’ (Her title was 往事重温 ‘Thinking aboutpast events’.). Her husband, their father was Ye Junjian 叶君健 who translated Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales
into Chinese from Danish, and was also a member of a committee which translated Mao Tsetung’s poems
into English.

BEEKEEPING*1994
Beekeeping in China today—Preparations for the Apimondia Congress in Beijing*1992
The nature of Beeswax. The history of Candlemaking. The problems with lighting in Restoration
Theatre and the revolutionary discovery by Cambacérès. Poured and Dipped Candles, and othermiscellanea*1995
Beekeeping in Japan, China and Korea, and the possibility of Africanised Bees reaching this sideof the Pacific*1997
Beekeeping in Yunnan*2001
Beekeeping in Taiwan*2002
The delicious Lime tree honey of Heilongjiang*2003
Beekeeping in China (Zhejiang) and Japan (Kochiken) in 2002
*2005
Mountains, Hotsprings, and Beekeepers*2007
Notes on Traditional Beekeeping in Korea
イタリア、モンゴル、日本、イギリスの2009年の養蜂の話

*2009
*2011

上海のRoyal Asiatic Societyでの養蜂についての講演
Giving a talk about bees for the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai
The 10th Asian Apicultural Association (AAA) Conference in Pusan

Beekeepers I had a chance to meet:
Eitan Zion in his caravan at the Yad Mordechai Kibbutz in Ashkelon in Israel just north of the Gaza Strip.
(Thank you Shimrit.) He is the great Israeli beekeeper with hives all over Israel.
Yang Xuining in 新疆阿克苏 Xinjiang Aksu pollinating the 阿克苏红富⼠。
。。the Aksu Red Fuji apples.
Prof. Woo Kunsuk, Suwon, South Korea has for a long time been the leading beekeeper there. He knows a
lot about Cerana beekeeping in the villages of South Korea.
Nakamura Akio 中村秋雄 in Gifu who has bees all around the foot of Kinkazan, and used to go up toOtoineppu ⾳威⼦府 in Hokkaido every summer for the thistle honey there.
Shen Ziming 沈⼦明 of the Guizhou Green Sun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd (manufacturer of medicine for piles
made from pollen collected by bees). (On this trip I also visited 贵州遵义, the place on the Long Marchwhere Mao Tsetung and Zhou Enlai took over control of the CCP from Comintern.)
GARDENING*日本と中国の野生薔薇とその子孫
Japanese and Chinese wild roses and their descendants 2008
(There is a Teriha Noibara 照り葉野茨 of great resilience growing on the railway embankment between
Meieki and the Sasashima campus. It is the ancestor of all rambler roses.)
A very important part of the research on roses has been visiting the rose garden in Kani called theHANAFESTA Kinen Koen 花フェスタ記念公園

PONSONBY FANE.
*1989, 90 Concerning Dr Richard Ponsonby-Fane and his work Parts 1, 2 and 3*1996
神道の起源についてLeading to Korean Studies*1995
The Korean-Japanese Relationship today. Is it necessary, or even possible, to rewrite ancienthistory? Are too many pieces of the jigsaw missing?
And to Ancient Egyptian Studies.
*Looking at the Differences and Similarities between Shinto and the Religion of Ancient Egypt.
*Ancient Egypt as Seen from Japan—The Starting Point of This Exploration
GEORGE LEONARD STAUNTON and GEORGE THOMAS STAUNTON*2014
Collecting materials about George Leonard Staunton and his son George Thomas Staunton andthe parts they played in the Macartney Embassy to China 1792–1794.
*2015
The Macartney Embassy to China 1792–1794, focusing on the part played by George Thomas
Staunton (Golden Week Trip 2014)*2016
The Macartney Embassy to China 1792–1794, focusing on the part played by George Thomas
Staunton (Autumn explorations 2014 and 2015)

RUSSIAN STUDIES*1990
Materials concerning the life and character of Prince Youssoupoff
The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol (known as the Battle of Nomonhan in Japanese.) I first saw it mentioned in thewar memoirs of the landlord of my farmhouse at Suigenbashi....in 1939 he was about to be sent there......
*2009
Khalkhyn Gol: a British Perspective.
*2012
世界史の中のノモンハン事件（ハルハ河合戦）(2)ARTISTIC FRIENDS
Miki Jitsu (Taketomi , Yaeyama .....a great painter of the coral reef, also abstract art)
Yoko Kitta (Glassblowing in Seto Akazu)
Takami Ishizaka (dustbin dyeing 藍染 at Suigenbashi ....now at Kanto Gakuin University near to Yokohama)
Ruth Cohn (Washi and very large Kanji......working in Nishi Muko...now living in West Jerusalem)
大島誠二 and his wife have a restaurant 織部亭 in Ichinomiya. Through them I met Kitta Yoko (glass) andToshi kun, then the ‘Setogumi’ in Seto Kamishinano (pottery etc etc)
Mrs Chinen 知念しげ子 (瑞峯 her flower arranging name) a Sogetsu flower arranging revolutionary (wifeof Aidai’s 知念先生)
Kamikaze Inoue from Tsukude mura, who paints like Miro and Kandinsky. “He fights against the forces ofdarkness in his pictures.)
PRESENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS ?
Recently I have been to Romania, Israel and Russia......and Egypt*2015
Zagazig and Neve Tsedek
An adventure which started in Sasashima*2016
Bucharest and Tel Aviv
Another adventure which started in Sasashima*2017
Christmas in Moscow (January 7th, 2017) A journey with my sister to explore the 1910 Russiandiary of my grandfather who had been a friend of Felix Yusupov, and the 1944/45 diary of mymother who was in the British Embassy in Moscow.
FAVOURITE AIDAI PEOPLE
Nakanishi Hiroji 先生 (Maisaka Matsuri)
Miyoshi Masahiro (国際問題研究所 International Affairs Institute......his speciality being development on
the continental shelf between China and Japan.)
鈴木重文先生....Jack and Betty in Hamamatsu......he sold Yamaha pianos from Hamburg during the 1980’s.....
had tea with Mrs Callaghan in 10 Downing Street after a charity concert in the Royal Albert Hall....later hecame to Aidai Miyoshi and helped Aidai so much after the financial crisis of 2008, when the French banks
nearly destroyed this university....curiously I had a friend who worked in the derivatives department of BNP

PARISBAS at that time. (Marie Ann Sevestre.)
Kimura Kazuo 先生 who lives near to the sea beside the Tenryu River.
Ike Minoru and Hisako 先生 who have supported me in all things. Taro is now in Kure, and Mari inHokkaido. Minoru sensei is still swimming.
Ito Tadao 先生 (introducing me to Chukyo University...the beautiful sports university out in Sanage where I
met a lot of nice people—like the Yokouchi 横内 family for example......also George Lashkia from Humber
Loop (Toronto)!....and Maeda Taeko 前田奉子 friend of David Swinburne whose company I enjoyed once
at JICA crossroads.
Inoue Ichiji (Beekeeper near to Aidai’s Miyoshi campus who also welcomed me in Nakamura’s hut in 秋田県大館市)
Thomas Gross 先生 of the International Communications Faculty.......one speciality is Hebrew Linguistics.....I
met him in Tel Aviv last year
Kuzuya sensei from Economics who introduced me to Han Qi as I came off the escalator in Sasashima.
Chieko Sakata 坂田智恵子 part-timer at Aidai and Chukyo, who helped me a lot with the research on roses.
It was she who first spotted the 照り葉野茨 on the railway embankment
Tomimasu sensei (plantsman......I received some fine dwarf Agapanthus from him which have multiplied ....)
⾼明潔 Gau Mingjie (Aruna) from Inner Mongolia, who put me in contact with Zhang Haiyang
The Inukai family in Nakamura ku. I met them by chance when I was looking for a bath.
Grandfather Inukai, formerly of Aidai Toyohashi, introduced me to 地蔵湯。His wife and daughter makedelicious okonomiyaki. The daughter Yoshie san’s friend had taught Japanese in Darkhan, Outer Mongolia.
When I went there for the Nomonhan conference, I was also able to meet Ultzi and family who took me toa great temple (off road) on the Russian border AMARBAYASGALANT KHIID. Thank you Inukai family.
Grandfather Inukai provided a maple bonsai and fern for the teachers room at Sasashima all the time I wasthere.
MORE FAVOURITE PEOPLE
Nicholas Maclean in London (Founder of the JET scheme, also the key person organising the Great Japan
Exhibition in 1981) ...he has always kept in touch/ more than kept in touch.
Duran Doeh in Moscow (Oil and Gas lawyer in Moscow who helped us get a feel of the place....talked ofRex Tillerson, Tim Barrow.....helped us buy tickets for the Conservatoire)
Ion Codrescu in Romania (introduced to Aidai by Ito Isao 先生) I felt I had met a Roman from 2000 years
ago, somebody who would get along with Ovid
Dr Asser Saleh in Zagazig in the Nile Delta (who I met over lunch in the JICA “Crossroads Cafe” inSasashima and who came to climb to 夜叉ヶ池.)
Renato Panciera, beekeeper at Forno di Zoldo, north of Venice, who was bringing in Carnelian queens fromAustria
Adam Poludniac 先生 in Hamamatsu (helped me to explore Poland, especially Wroclaw and Krakov
introducing Johann Dzierzon 1811–1906 the great Silesian beekeeper. And I learned about L’vov in the1920’s and 30’s from his mother’s songs.)
Anthony Jeffreys, a neighbour from Sussex, who tried to take carp as hand luggage from Japan to a pond in
Poland . He now lives in Suleyuvek, a suburb of Warsaw.
Bill Tam in Hong Kong. I met him in the mist on Lantau. His grandmother was a cousin of Liao Zhongkai
廖仲恺 so Bill is a more distant cousin of Liao Chengzhi 廖承志
Sugita Hajime, neighbour in Okazaki Idacho, plantsman and plant hunter ...bred the Miracle Lemony
hosta.....and friend of the Ikes 杉田元と杉田圭子
Sumet Jumsai, Thai architect, friend of Gill Mellor in Kyoto, and also Isaam el Said ...they had all been atCambridge together.
Hayashi sensei of the アジア現代史研究所 in Kyoto
久恒治人と実香子 of Nishio in Mikawa. He was with Bank of Japan, and came from them to St Anthony’s
College, Oxford.....later with 碧海信用金庫...now with Makita, the maker of drills and chainsaws.
Norie Oiwa, the violin teacher in Toyohashi
Fusako Nakanishi, mother of the artist Nakanishi Hiroki. She also paints very well.
Robert Hellyer, I met on Tsushima Island on a bus. His Bakumatsu ancestor was William Alt whose housestill stands in the Glover Park in Nagasaki. William Alt was apparently selling guns to Ike Minoru’s ancestor
in Tosa....so I introduced them.
Husel Borjigin who organised ‘The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol (Nomonhan Incident) it’s place in WorldHistory’ a conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2009
FAVOURITE BOOKS (looking around my study office....)
Egyptian Grammar.......by Sir Alan Gardiner
Inside the Treasure House A time in Tibet.....by Catriona Bass
The Rosales Novels (Tree, My Brother My Executioner, The Pretenders, Mass) by Sionil Jose of thePhilippines.
Bees and Beekeeping, Science, Practice and World Resources by Eva Crane
Nectar and Pollen Plants of China.....by Xu Wanlin. 中国花粉源植物。
。。by 徐万林
中國蜜粉源植物及其利⽤ (If I carry these two books—weight 6 kg—along with a bee net anywhere in the
countryside in China, I can convince people I am an agricultural specialist....)
Encyclopaedia of MONGOLIA and the MONGOL EMPIRE ......BY Christopher Atwood
A Little Primer of Du Fu.......by David Hawkes
PAEKCHE OF KOREA AND THE ORIGIN OF YAMATO JAPAN......BY HONG WONTACK
Story of America by Ralph Volney Harlow and Ruth Elizabeth Miller (An old history book belonging toProf. Ike.)
Natasha’s Dance....by Orlando Figes.
Lord Macartney, an Embassy to China (Folio Edition) (His own diary.)
THE SHIBATA MEMOIR 柴田幸則著「わが家と私の轍──大正 昭和 平成 波乱の人生」

Shibata Yukinori, the landlord of the farmhouse at Suigenbashi, gave me this on his 90th birthday. “John sancannot read this” he said. But with help I read it. It contains an astonishing account (15 pages) of the retreat
from Imphal in 1944.
ASSESSMENT
There have been a lot of changes since I came to Aidai in 1981. The biggest one is the Internet, and using
e- mail and Facebook, and the fact that there is WIFI almost everywhere. Next, I had to move from the oldfarmhouse near to Suigenbashi in Toyota. I was there for 27 years. By the end of my time there, the roof
was leaking everywhere. But it was a very nice place to live, and on a fine day, with Kilims spread over thetatami, and lots of students partying, it was like a palace. Now I live in the Okazaki Idacho in the hanare ofthe Ikes old house. The roof is sound and there is a jungle garden round it which I am going to have to cut
down this Autumn. The university has also changed but not so much. Toyohashi is still a nice campus, but
without so many students now. The new Sasashima campus has been very exciting for me. Aichi University
is without question the best university in this part of Japan and my job here has been a very good one.