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John F. Embree
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John Embree received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Hawaii in 1931, his Master of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1934 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1937. In 1935-1936, as part of his doctoral thesis, he conducted field research in a rural area of Kumamoto on the southernmost Japanese island of Kyūshū. The study culminated in the seminal book Suye Mura: A Japanese Village, published in 1939 by the University of Chicago Press.
John Embree served as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii in 1937-1941 and during World World War II in 1943-1945.
He was also Associate Professor of Anthropology and head of the Japanese area studies of the Civil Affairs Training School for the Far East which the War Department set up at the University of Chicago for the training of military government officers for Japan and the Occupied Areas.
