Ronald P. Toby (born 1942) is an American historian, academic, writer and Japanologist.
Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1977.
[2] Toby's academic specialization focuses on issues having to do with pre- and early-modern Japan.
His book State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan demonstrates that during the so-called "closed country" period in the Edo era, Japan was never truly closed to the outside world.
Tony's published writings encompass 52 works in 158 publications in 3 languages and 2,117 library holdings.