Richard Storry
Richard Storry(20 October 1913 – 19 February 1982) was a BritishJapanologist.[1][2][3]
He was born inDoncasterand educated atRepton SchoolandMerton College, Oxford.In 1937, upon the advice of one of his tutors at Oxford,Edmund Blunden,Storry was appointed lecturer in English atOtaru Higher Commercial SchoolinHokkaido,Japan,a post he held until 1940. During theSecond World Warhe served in theIntelligence Corpsin the Middle East, Singapore, India and Burma. He commanded a mobile section of the South East Asia Translation and Interrogation Centre during the 1944Battle of Imphal.[3]
During 1947–1955 he studied at theAustralian National Universityas Research Scholar and later as a Fellow. He was then elected to a Roger Heyworth Memorial Research Fellowship atSt Antony's College, Oxford.In 1970 he was appointed Director of St Anthony's College's Far East Centre, where his work on Japanese studies laid the ground for a benefaction fromNissanof a Nissan Institute to the college, which opened in 1981. In 1981 the college awarded him anad hominemProfessorship in Japanese Studies and he was also a recipient of theJapan Foundation Award.He died inWoodeatonnear Oxford aged 68.[3]
He was best known for hisA History of Modern Japan,which was first published in 1960.[3]
Works
[edit]- The Double Patriots: A Study of Japanese Nationalism(London: Chatto & Windus, 1957).
- A History of Modern Japan(London: Pelican Books, 1960). Reprinted with revisions in 1961, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1982.
- The Case of Richard Sorge,co-authored with SirWilliam Deakin(London: Chatto & Windus, 1966).
- The Way of the Samurai(Orbis, 1978).
- Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894–1943(London: Macmillan, 1979).
Notes
[edit]- ^Dorothie Storry,Second Country: The Story of Richard Storry and Japan, 1913–1982: A Biography(P. Norbury, 1986), p. 13.
- ^Ian Nish,'Richard Storry and Japanese Studies in Europe', in Richard Storry,Collected Writings of Richard Storry,ed. Ian Nish (Japan Library and Edition Synapse, 2002), p. 16.
- ^abcd'Professor Richard Storry',The Times(25 February 1982), p. 12.
