Sōkichi Tsuda was a Japanese historian and intellectual historian. He served as a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University. He is known for applying rigorous source criticism to ancient Japanese history, particularly to the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.
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Sōkichi Tsuda was a Japanese historian and intellectual historian. He served as a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University. He is known for applying rigorous source criticism to ancient Japanese history, particularly to the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. He has been regarded as a leading figure in Japan's modern empirical historiography. In 1947 he was elected a member of the Imperial Academy, and in 1949 he received the Order of Culture. He was also awarded the court rank of Junior Third Rank and the decoration First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure.
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