Kenneth G. Henshall

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Kenneth G. Henshall



Kenneth G. Henshall is a graduate of the universities of London (B.A.), Sydney (PhD), and Adelaide (Dip. Ed.), and is now a professor of Japanese at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has also taught at the universities of Auckland, Western Australia, California and Waikato. He is well-known for his translations of literature and history books, and is the author of A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters.

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A History of Japan: From St...

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Learning Japanese Hiragana ...

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A Guide to Remembering Japa...

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A Guide to Learning Hiragan...

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Welcome to Japanese: A Begi...

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Dimensions of Japanese Soci...

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Folly and Fortune in Early ...

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In Search of Nature: The Ja...

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Historical Dictionary of Ja...

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“Yhere is a well-known saying in Japan that if a song-bird would not sing, Nobunaga would kill it, Hideyoshi would persuade it to sing, and Ieyasu would simply wait for it to sing.”
Kenneth Henshall, Storia del Giappone
tags: japan

“The first Japanese strike in the Pacific War was not against America at Pearl Harbor. It was against British Malaya. About 90mn before Pearl Harbor, some 5k Japanese troops successfully attacked a British force in Kota Bharu, in the Kelantan Sultanate.”
Kenneth Henshall, Storia del Giappone
tags: japan

“The use of the male pronoun above is deliberate, for the Chinese preferred their emperors to be male. This was one thing that was not modified in Japan. Although there were half of dozen reigning empresses in very early Japan, from 770 to the present only 2 females were to ascend the Japanese throne, both briefly and both in name only.”
Kenneth Henshall, Storia del Giappone
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