Richard Okada [SEP] date of death
Richard Okada
Hideki Richard Okada (2 July 1945 – 4 April 2012) was Professor of Japanese at Princeton University, in the East Asian Studies Department. He was a specialist in the Tale of Genji, and his most recent work has been editing a three-volume collection of academic essays about the novel. His doctoral degree was from the University of California, Berkeley.
His 1977 doctoral thesis, "Sagoromo monogatari: a study and partial translation", has been called "one of the most important contributions to
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- December 18 – Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer (d. 1950)
- December 23 – Mokichi Okada, Japanese religious leader (d. 1955)
- December 28 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, astrophysicist and mathematician (d. 1944)
- December 29 – Raymond Stanton Patton, American admiral, engineer and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (d. 1937)
- December 31 – Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
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