岩生 成一
He attended the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1925.
He was for many years a professor at the University of Tokyo. His contribution to Japanese historiography is measured in the effect his teaching and example produced in a younger generation of students. Indonesian history Professor
Iwao was considered a leading scholar in the colonial period of Indonesian history.
His study of Japanese towns in South Asia before the Pacific War was published in A study of Japanese Towns in the South (南洋日本町の研究, Nan"yo Nihonmachi no kenkyu). The research used documents of the Dutch East Indies Company in the archives of the Hague and Jakarta.
Japanese history Professor Iwao"s research and writing covered a broad range, including his early work on Japanese emigrant communities in South Asia and his later work on the Edo period of national seclusion (sakoku).
Japan Academy, elected 1965.
Franco-Japanese Historical Society (Societe Franco-Japonaise des Sciences Historiques. Nichi-Futsu Rekishi Gakkai) Japan-Netherlands Institute (Nichi-Ran Gakkai).
Japan Academy]
Seiichi was a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo.