Philip C. Brown; B.A., College of Wooster, 1969; M.A., University of Rochester, 1971; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1981.

Professor Brown is an expert in Early Modern Japanese History with special interest in domain formation and the Early Modern Japanese state. He is the author of Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain (1993). In addition, he has published a number of articles that explore early modern technological development of land surveying and map-making and patterns of rural landholding.

His current research focuses on the role of corporate forms of landholding (warichi) in early modern village society, its impact on the environment and its relationship to economic change. His research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Japan Institute at Harvard University. During 1989-90, Professor Brown was Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. During 1994, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Japan. From September 1997 to March 1998 he was the first scholar appointed as Visiting International Research Scholar of the Division of Historical Manuscripts at the National Institute of Japanese Literature in Tokyo.  His e-mail address is Brown.113@osu.edu.   His office is 147 Dulles Hall, and his telephone number is (614)292-0904.

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Nihonshi kenkyu articles list

1:25k & 1:50k Japan Map Comparison.These two maps represent the same section of Nagaoka city at different scales. Note that the larger scale map has even less identification of place names than the smaller. This is partly a result of continued administrative amalgamation during the twentieth century that removed a number of communities from the most common maps (1:25,000).
GPS vs. Japan Gov. Data Comparison close-up

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