James Marshall Unger
James Marshall Unger,, is emeritus professor of Japanese at the Ohio State University. He specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia, but has also published on Japanese mathematics of the Edo period.
He chaired academic departments at the University of Hawai’i, University of Maryland, and the Ohio State University from 1988 to 2004, and has been a visiting professor/researcher at Kōbe University, Tsukuba University, the University of Tōkyō, the National Museum for Ethnography in Senri, and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Tachikawa. Among various research grants, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Japan Foundation.Books
- Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics
- With F. C. Lorish, M. Noda, Y. Wada A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges
- The Fifth Generation Fallacy
- Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
- Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
- The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages
- Sangaku Proofs: a Japanese Mathematician at Work
- Sangaku Reflections: a Japanese Mathematician Teaches
