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G. Cameron Hurst III (1941- June 30, 2016)was an American scholar of Japan and Korea. At his death he was Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies at University of Pennsylvania, where he had been Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, and had taught at University of Kansas from 1969 until 1989. Among his scholarly publications are Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan, 1086-1185 (Columbia University Press,1976) and a study growing out his interest in the martial arts, Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery (Yale University Press, 1998).

A festschrift honoring Hurst was edited by Karl Friday Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1830 (Westview Press, 2012).

Education and early career
Stanford University B.A. in History and Japanese in 1963. M.A. East Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i 1966; PhD East Asian Language and Cultures, Columbia University, 1972 including study at the Stanford Center, Keio University, the University of Kyoto, and the University of Tokyo.