James Murdoch (journalist)

James Murdoch (27 September 1856 – 30 October 1921) was a Scottish-Australian academic, journalist, translator, editor and Japanologist.  He is best known for writing a three-volume A History of Japan.  It was the first history of Japan published in the English.Sissons, D. C. S.  "Murdoch, James (1856–1921)," Australian Dictionary of Biography; 2012-11-6.

Early life
Murdoch was born in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, in Scotland. At the University of Aberdeen, he earned a bachelor's and master's degree. He also studied at Oxford University.

Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Murdoch, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 60+ works in 130+ publications in 4 languages and 1,300+ library holdings . WorldCat Identities: Murdoch, James 1856-1921; retrieved 2012-11-1. 
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 A history of constitutional reform in Great Britain and Ireland : with full account of the three great measures of 1832, 1867 and 1884, 1885
 The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years, 1890 (with Joseph Heco)
 Ayame-san, a Japanese romance of the 23rd year of Meiji (1890), 1892
 From Australia and Japan, 1892
 The Nikkō district, 1893
 Scenes from the Chiushingura and the story of the forty-seven Rōnin, 1893
 A history of Japan, 1903 
 Scenes from open air life in Japan, 1910 (with W. K Burton)

References

Other websites
  Murdoch, James, 1856-1921 at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) 
James Murdoch at Kyushu Instittue of Technology 
Ayame-san
Scenes From the Chiushingura and the Story of Forty-Seven Ronin
The 47 Rônin are Introduced to the World

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