James Murdoch (journalist)

James Murdoch
Born	(1856-09-27)September 27, 1856 Stonehaven, Scotland
Died	October 30, 1921(1921-10-30) (aged 65) Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Scottish (British)
Occupation(s)	journalist, educator, historian

James Murdoch (27 September 1856 – 30 October 1921) was a Scottish-Australian academic, journalist, translator, editor and Japanologist. He is best known for writing a three-volume A History of Japan. It was the first history of Japan published in the English.

Early life

Murdoch was born in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, in Scotland. At the University of Aberdeen, he earned a bachelor's and master's degree. He also studied at Oxford University.

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Murdoch, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 60+ works in 130+ publications in 4 languages and 1,300+ library holdings .

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• A history of constitutional reform in Great Britain and Ireland : with full account of the three great measures of 1832, 1867 and 1884, 1885
• The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years, 1890 (with Joseph Heco)
• Ayame-san, a Japanese romance of the 23rd year of Meiji (1890), 1892
• From Australia and Japan, 1892
• The Nikkō district, 1893
• Scenes from the Chiushingura and the story of the forty-seven Rōnin, 1893
• A history of Japan, 1903
• Scenes from open air life in Japan, 1910 (with W. K Burton)

Other websites

• Murdoch, James, 1856-1921 at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Archived 2014-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
• James Murdoch at Kyushu Instittue of Technology Archived 2007-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Ayame-san
• Scenes From the Chiushingura and the Story of Forty-Seven Ronin
• The 47 Rônin are Introduced to the World