Shirō Hattori

Shiro Hattori (服部四郎) 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 (1951)
 * Genealogy of the Japanese Language (日本語の系統) (1959)
 * Dictionary of Ainu Dialects (アイヌ語方言辞典) (1964)
 * 音韻論と正書法: 新日本式つづり方の提唱 (1979)

Awards and honors

 * Order of Culture
 * Indiana University Prize for Altaic Studies, 1983
 * Australian Academy of the Humanities, Honorary Fellow, 1984