Shin'ichirō Tawata
Japanese linguist
Shin'ichirō Tawata (Japanese: 多和田 眞一郎, Tawata Shin'ichirō, 1947 – 15 May 2026) was a Japanese linguist who specialised in Japanese linguistics and historical linguistics. He was a professor emeritus at Hiroshima University.
Life and career
Tawata was born in 1947 in Okinawa Prefecture, and raised in Ginowan. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at Shizuoka University in 1970. He then entered Tokyo Metropolitan University, where he completed his master's program in Humanities in 1972 and advanced to the doctoral program. In 1973, he studied abroad at the Korean Language Institute of Yonsei University in South Korea. He withdrew from the doctoral program at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1978 after completing the required course credits. In 1995, he obtained a PhD (Academic) with his dissertation, Foreign Sources-Based Historical Study on the Phonetics and Phonology of the Okinawan Language.
He worked as a lecturer at the Japanese Language School for Foreign Students attached to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In 1985, he became an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Hiroshima University, and was promoted to full professor in 1990, serving within the International Student Center and the Graduate School of Education.
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