Ronald P. Toby is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 historian, academic, writer and Japanologist.

Career

As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the University of California at Berkeley, the Keio University

Keio University

,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...

 and the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

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Toby's academic specialization focuses on issues having to do with pre- and early-modern Japan.

Select works

Toby's published writings encompass 18 works in 33 publications in 3 languages and 794 library holdings.

• 2004 — Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1870 with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0198289057/13-ISBN 9780198289050; OCLC 53388426
• 1983 — State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 10-ISBN 0691054010; 13-ISBN 9780691054018; OCLC 182640041
• 1977 — The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University. OCLC 6909487
• 1974 — Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title. M.A. thesis, Columbia University. OCLC 45788706