Donald Shively

Donald Howard Shively (May 11, 1921 – August 13, 2005) was an American academic, historian, Japanologist, author and professor emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a leader of Japan studies in the United States.

Early life Shively was the son of American missionaries in Japan. He was born in Kyoto and educated at the Canadian Academy in Japan.

Years of study in the United States began when he entered Harvard in 1940, but his college years were interrupted by war. In World War II, Shively was a Japanese language officer. He was promoted to the rank of major in the United States Marine Corps, and his service was marked by the Bronze Star Medal. and also editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies from 1975 to 1983.

The Love Suicide at Amijima: a study of a Japanese Domestic Tragedy by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1953) Personality in Japanese History (1970) with Albert Craig Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture (1971) The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 2, Heian Japan (1999)

Honors Order of the Rising Sun, 1982.