Shirō Hattori
Shirō Hattori was a Japanese academic and writer. 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.
Selected works
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.- 音聲學
- Genealogy of the Japanese Language
- Dictionary of Ainu Dialects
- 音韻論と正書法: 新日本式つづり方の提唱
Awards and honors
- Order of Culture
- Indiana University Prize for Altaic Studies, 1983
- Australian Academy of the Humanities, Honorary Fellow, 1984