Tadao Umesao

Tadao Umesao (梅棹 忠夫) was a Japanese anthropologist. A professor for decades at Kyoto University, he was also among the founders and the director-general of National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. A number of Umesao's theories were influential on anthropologists, and his work was also well known among the general population of Japan.

Publications
Major Publications in Japanese
 * 1956		Exploration to the Moghols in Afghanistan, Iwanami Shoten
 * 1957		Ethnological Conception of the History of Civilizations, Chuo Koron-sha
 * 1969		The Art of Intellectual Production, Iwanami Shoten
 * 1974		The Japanese in the Global Age, Chuo Koron-sha
 * 1976		The World of Hunting and Nomadism, Kodansha
 * 1986	The Formation and Development of Modern Japanese Civilization, Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai
 * 1987		The Museum as Media, Heibonsha
 * 1988		Civilization Theory on Information, Chuo Koron-sha
 * 1988		Women and Civilization, Chuo Koron-sha
 * 1989		Research Management Theory, Iwanami Shoten
 * 1989–94	Collected Works of Tadao Umesao, Chuo Koron-sha
 * 1997		Action and Imagination: an autobiography, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha
 * 2000	Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Comparative Study of Civilizations, Chuo Koron Shinsha

Publications in other languages:
 * 1983 	Le Japon à l'ère Planétaire, Paris : Publications Orientalistes de France.
 * 1984 	Il Giappone Nell'era Planetaria, Milano: Spirali Edizioni.
 * 1988	“Prolegomena zu einer historischen Betrachtung zivilisierter Lebensformen“ in Japan ohne Mythos, Munich: Iudicium.
 * 1998	The Roots of Contemporary Japan (trilingual in English, Japanese and Chinese), Tokyo: The Japan Forum.
 * 2002	Ecological and Anthropological Study of the Nomadic Culture of Mongolia, Hohhot: People's Press of Inner Mongolia.
 * 2003 	An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context, Edited by Harumi Befu, Translated by Beth Cary, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
 * An Ecological View of History was also translated into Chinese (Shanghai, 1988) and Vietnamese (Ha Noi, 2007)

Awards and honors

 * Jan. 1988 	The Asahi Prize, Japan
 * Apr. 1988 	Commandeur, Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France
 * May 1988	Medal with Purple Ribbon, Japan
 * Oct. 1990	Japan Foundation Award, 1990.
 * Nov. 1991	Person of Cultural Merit, Japan
 * Nov. 1994	Order of Culture, Japan
 * Jul. 1998	Person of Cultural Merit, Mongolia
 * Nov. 1999	Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan
 * Oct. 2002	C&C Prize (Foundation for Computers and Communications Promotion), Japan