John F Howes

Biographic Data

ID731864
NAMEJohn F Howes
GIVEN NAMESJohn F
FAMILY NAMEHowes
SIGNATUREHOWES J F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Nitobe Inazô

    John F HowesBOOKNitobe Inazo2021

  • Nitobe Inazo

    John F HowesBOOKNitobe Inazo2021

  • The Japanese Political Thought of Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930)

    John F HowesARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2010

    Reviewed by: The Japanese Political Thought of Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930): Synthesizing Bushidō, Christianity, Nationalism, and Liberalism John F. Howes (bio) The Japanese Political Thought of Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930): Synthesizing Bushidō, Christianity, Nationalism, and Liberalism. By Hiroko Willcock. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y., 2007. xxiii, 386 pages. $129.95. This welcome study opens a whole new field through its application of the i…

  • Christian Prophecy in Japan

    Open AccessJohn F HowesARTICLEJapanese Journal of Religious…2007

    Uchimura Kanzo (1861-1930) was an extremely accomplished Meiji Christian convert who emphasized a Christianity he considered in tune with traditional Japanese religiosity and free of Western influence. When a child, he observed his family's distress as Meiji rulers dismantled the Tokugawa political system. Then he assumed responsibility for their support when he turned sixteen. Though thus burdened by family responsibility, he finished a Japanese…

  • Japan's Modern Prophet

    John F HowesBOOKJapan's Modern Prophet2006

    Preface Introduction Part 1: I Refuse 1 Education of a Meiji Samurai 2 Budding Civil Servant 3 Birth of a Writer 4 Justification of Self and of Nation 5 Out into the World Part 2: The Pact with God 6 With Luther Presiding 7 The Taught 8 The Teaching: Christianity and the Bible 9 The Teaching: Institutions and Individuals 10 The Last Chance Part 3: I Am Not 11 Christ Is Coming 12 The Bible and Japan 13 The Sage 14 Telling Off the West 15 Maturing …

  • Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees

    Open AccessJohn F HowesARTICLEJournal of History2002

  • The Sound of the Whistle

    John F Howes, Steven J EricsonARTICLEPacific Affairs1998

  • Nitobe Inazo

    F G Notehelfer, John F HowesARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1996

    Part 1 Maturation: roots, John F. Howes graduate student and Quaker, Furuya Jun. Part 2 What is a Japanese?: Japan watchers 1905-1931, A. Hamish Ion bushido - its admirers and its critics, Cyril H. Powles Philippine bushido, Grant K. Goodman toward remaking manhood, Donald Roden. Part 3 Japan in the world: colonial theory in pre-war Japan, Miwa Kimitade the Geneva spirit, Thomas W. Burkman. Part 4 Evaluation: journalism - the last bridge, Sato Ma…

  • Nitobe Inazo

    Sally Ann Hastings, Nitobe Inazo et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1995

  • The Cross and the Rising Sun, Vol. 2

    John F Howes, A Hamish IonARTICLEPacific Affairs1994

  • Leon Zolbrod (1930-1991)

    Open AccessJohn F HowesARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1992

    Obituary| November 01 1992 Leon Zolbrod (1930–1991) John F. Howes John F. Howes Obirin University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 1007–1008. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800060617 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…

  • Jonathan Goble of Japan

    John F Howes, F Calvin Parker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1991

    This is a readable and entertaining account of the most colorful and eccentric missionary in nineteenth-century Japan, Jonathan Goble (1827-1926). Goble first visited Japan as a marine in Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition of 1853-54. He won acclaim in the official Narrative of the Expedition for befriending the Japanese castaway Sam Patch. After returning to Japan as a missionary of the American Baptist Free Mission Society, Goble translate…

  • Japan in Transition

    Open AccessJohn F HowesARTICLEJournal of History1988

    "Japan in Transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji, edited by Marius B. Jansen and Gilbert Rozman." Canadian Journal of History, 23(1), pp. 134–135

  • Buddhism and Christianity in Japan

    John F Howes, Notto R ThelleARTICLEPacific Affairs1987

  • Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan

    John F Howes, Bob Tadashi WakabayashiARTICLEPacific Affairs1987

    This study analyzes New (Shinron), by Aizawa Seishisai (1781 1863), and its contribution to Japanese political thought and policy during the early modern era. New Theses is found to be indispensable to our understanding of Japan's transformation from a feudal to a modern state. Focusing on Aizawa, Wakabayashi traces the development of xenophobia during the Tokugawa period and examines the basis of anti Western sentiment. He shows how knowledge of…

  • American Samurai. Captain L.L. Janes and Japan

    John F Howes, F G NotehelferARTICLEPacific Affairs1986

  • One Hundred Years in Japan, 1873-1973. Parts I & II

    John F Howes, Gwen R P Norman et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1983

  • Pacifism in Japan. The Christian and Socialist Tradition

    Winston Davis, Nobuya Bamba et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1982

  • Pacifism in Japan. The Christian and Socialist Tradition

    H J Jones, Nobuya Bamba et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1979Cited by: 2

  • Authority and the Individual in Japan

    John F Howes, John Howes et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1979

  • Challenging comparative biography

    Open AccessJohn F HowesARTICLEJapanese Journal of Religious…1976

  • Japan

    John S Brownlee, Charles Mcnulty et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1976

  • Japanese Culture

    John F Howes, H Paul VarleyARTICLEPacific Affairs1975

  • Sir George Sansom and Japan

    John F Howes, Katherine SansomARTICLEPacific Affairs1975

  • Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan

    John F Howes, Irwin ScheinerARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1972References: 2

    taught me more about the craft of the historian than I can ever hope to absorb, and I have been warmed by their friendship