Japanese Historical Text Initiative ( JHTI ) is a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations. It is part of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley .
7-593: Delmer M. Brown started the process of establishing JHTI in 1998. The development of JHTI involved negotiations with the University of Tokyo Press and the National Institute of Japanese Literature . JHTI is an expanding online collection of historical texts. The original version of every paragraph is cross-linked with an English translation. The original words in Japanese and English translation are on
14-539: A degree in history in 1932. Instead of going to law school, as originally planned, Brown took a position teaching English at a prestigious Japanese Imperial "Higher School" in Kanazawa, Ishikawa , Japan . It was there that he met and married Mary Nelson Logan in 1934. During World War II , Brown served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy . Brown earned his Ph.D. in Japanese history from Stanford in 1946. In 1987, Mary died after 53 years of marriage. Brown
21-731: The history department from 1957 to 1961 and 1971 to 1975. Brown was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Japan from 1959 to 1960. In 1998, Brown started the process of establishing the Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI), which is a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations. It is part of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The development of JHTI involved negotiations with
28-478: The same screen. There are seven categories of writings, including These works were compiled by officials of the Imperial Court at the command of the emperors. These records, Fudoki , were compiled by provincial officials according to imperial edicts during the first half of the 8th century. This was a compilation of religious law and civil law. These historical tales ( monogatari ) were about what
35-555: Was an American academic , historian , writer, translator and Japanologist . He was a professor of Japanese history at the University of California at Berkeley . Brown was born on November 20, 1909, in Harrisonville, Missouri , and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri . In 1925, he moved with his family to Santa Ana, California . He attended Santa Ana Junior College and then Stanford University , where he graduated with
42-544: Was said and done by the prominent historical figures in aristocratic and military clans in feudal Japan These three histories were written in ways that mirror the religious and political interests of their authors. These works are about State Shinto and the Empire of Japan. This category is for miscellaneous writings which are from Japan's pre-modern and early-modern periods. Delmer M. Brown Delmer Myers Brown (November 20, 1909 – November 9, 2011)
49-402: Was widowed twice more; by Margaret Young Brown in 2003 and Louise K. Weamer in 2010. He is survived by his companion Pauline Howland, two sisters, a son and three step-children, two granddaughters, and six great-grandchildren. Brown died on November 9, 2011, following a stroke . From 1946 to 1977, Brown was a member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He was chairman of
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