Australian National Library, catalogue: Iwao, Seiichi (1900-1988) was a Japanese academic, an historian and author. He was, for many years, a professor at the University of Tokyo.
Early life Seiichi was born in Tokyo. He attended the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1925.
Career Seiichi was a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo.Hall, John Whitney. "Review: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History by Seiichi Iwao; Burton Watson," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 473-476. His contribution to Japanese historiography is measured in the effect his teaching and example produced in a younger generation of students.National Committee of Japanese Historians. (1991). Historical studies in Japan (VII) 1983-1987, pp. 51-53.
Indonesian history Iwao was considered a leading scholar in the colonial period of Indonesian history. His study of Japanese towns in South Asia before the Pacific War was published in . The research used documents of the Dutch East Indies Company in the archives of the Hague and Jakarta.Soedjatmoko. (2007). An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, p. 212.
Japanese history Iwao's research and writing covered a broad range, including his early work on Japanese emigrant communities in South Asia and his later work on the Edo period of national seclusion (sakoku).
Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Seiichi Iwao, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 7 languages and 1,500+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities: 岩生成一 1900-1988
1940 – 1943 – 1958 – 1962 – 1966 – 1979 – 2001 – 1982 – Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History 1982, with Burton Watson 2002 – Dictionnaire historique du Japon, Vol. I; Vol. II, with Teizō Iyanaga, Susumu Ishii, Shōichirō Yoshida et al.
Affiliations Japan Academy, elected 1965.Japan Academy: Deceased members. Franco-Japanese Historical Society (Societe Franco-Japonaise des Sciences Historiques; Nichi-Futsu Rekishi Gakkai) Japan-Netherlands Institute (Nichi-Ran Gakkai)
Honors Imperial Academy, Imperial Academy Prize, 1941Japan Academy: Imperial Academy Prize, 1941: "A Study on the History of the Japanese Quarters in the South Seas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries". Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1970.
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References Hall, John Whitney. "Review: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History by Seiichi Iwao; Burton Watson," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 473–476. National Committee of Japanese Historians. (1991). Historical studies in Japan (VII) 1983-1987 (Nihon ni okeru rekishigaku no hattatsu to genjō). Leiden: Brill Publishers. ; ; Soedjatmoko. (2007). An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography. Jakarta: Equinox. ;
Some of this article's contents are derived from the Seiichi Iwao article on the Japanese Wikipedia.