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Robert Burnett Hall (July 18, 1896 - April 4, 1975), born in Espanola, New Mexico, was an American geographer known for his work on Japan. He taught for most of his career at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ==Honors and positions== The Japanese government conferred on him the Order of the Rising Sun, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, the highest decoration granted to a foreigner by Japan. He was one of seven foreign geographers, and the only American, honored by the Silver Medal of the Tokyo Geographical Society. He served in Japan as the representative of the Asia Foundation 1955- 1960, and founding director of University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1947-1957. He received the "Meritorious Contribution" award from the Association of American Geographers in 1956. 〔(Honors of the Association of American Geographers )〕 ==Education and academic career== Hall joined the United States Army in 1913 and rose to the rank of Captain as an intelligence officer in France during World War I. After the war, he became a student at the University of Michigan in 1920, where he obtained his Bachelor's, Master's and in 1927 Doctor's degree in the Department of Geography. His doctoral thesis was based on field work in Haiti. He became Instructor in 1923, the year the Department attained independent status, and was promoted to Professor in 1938. In 1928 Hall did his first field work in Japan. When the Second World War began, Hall was studying the Japanese immigrants who had gone to Latin America. He was commissioned a Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Army, directing operations of the Office of Strategic Services, first on the Pacific Coast, later in the China-India theater, where he was promoted to the rank of Colonel Following the war he returned to University of Michigan. He was president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1951 and served for many years on the board of the Social Science Research Council, including several years as chairman. The fifteen students he directed in their doctoral work chose Japan as the subject of their theses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert B. Hall (Japanologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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