Ronald Toby

Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1977.[http://illinois.edu/ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]; [http://www.ealc.uiuc.edu/ealc/people/faculty/toby.htm Department of East Asian Languages and Culture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613033819/http://www.ealc.uiuc.edu/ealc/people/faculty/toby.htm |date=2010-06-13 }}

As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University, and the University of Tokyo.Press release: [https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-075.html "First Japanese Diplomatic Mission to U.S. Is Subject of May 24 Lecture,"] Library of Congress, April 16, 2010.

Toby's academic specialization focuses on issues having to do with pre- and early-modern Japan. His book State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan demonstrates that during the so-called "closed country" period in the Edo era, Japan was never truly closed to the outside world.

Tony's published writings encompass 52 works in 158 publications in 3 languages and 2,117 library holdings.{{Cite web | url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82218767/ | title=Ronald Toby | access-date=2024-08-03 | publisher=Worlcat Entities}}

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• 2019 — [https://books.google.com/books?id=dZGFDwAAQBAJ Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850] Leiden:Brill. {{ISBN|978-90-04-39062-1}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1066182857 OCLC 1066182857]
• 2004 — [https://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&q=ronald+toby Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1870] with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780198289050}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53388426 OCLC 53388426]
• 1983 — [https://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&dq=State+and+Diplomacy+in+Early+Modern+Japan&pg=PP1 State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu.] Princeton: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-691-05401-8}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182640041 OCLC 182640041]
• 1977 — The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6909487 OCLC 6909487]
• 1974 — Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title. M.A. thesis, Columbia University. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45788706 OCLC 45788706]

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