Shirō Hattori

Shiro Hattori (服部四郎, Hattori Shirō, May 29, 1908 – January 29, 1995) was a Japanese academic and writer.

[1] Born in Kameyama, Mie, Hattori was a linguist known particularly for his work on premodern Japanese and Japonic languages and the Ainu language.

He was a professor at the University of Tokyo.

[2] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Shiro Hattori, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 150+ works in 200+ publications in 8 languages and 1,300+ library holdings.

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