E. Warren Clark

Edward Warren Clark (January 27, 1849 – June 5, 1907) was an American educator who taught thousands of young Japanese the rudiments of modern science while employed as a teacher in Japan from 1871 to 1875.

[2] He graduated from what is now Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1869 with a degree in Chemistry and Biology.

[2] He was one of several hundred teachers hired by the Japanese government to familiarize students with the science and technology of the West.

Clark first taught at a school in Shizuoka that trained students to become science teachers.

[4] Clark was a close associate of William Elliot Griffis (1842–1928), widely regarded as the first major American Japanologist.