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Shirō Hattori
Japanese linguist
Shiro Hattori (服部四郎, Hattori Shirō, May 29, 1908 – January 29, 1995) was a Japanese academic and writer.[1] Born in Kameyama, Mie, Hattori was a linguist known particularly for his work on premodern Japanese and Japonic languages and the Ainu language. He was a professor at the University of Tokyo.[2]