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.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Department of East Asian Languages and Culture ; retrieved 2013-3-23.

Career
Toby has been a history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University and the University of Tokyo.Press release:  "First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to U.S. Is Subject of May 24 Lecture," Library of Congress, April 16, 2010.

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. WorldCat Identities:  Toby, Ronald P. 1942-  

 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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Category:American Japanologists
Category:Living people
Category:1942 births
Category:American historians