Ichiro Shirato
Travel Writing
Ichiro Shirato was a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University for 40 years and an early leader in teaching the Japanese language in the United States. He married Masa Aoyama in 1941. His wife, Masa, passed away in 2016. An endowed fund in his honor, the Ichiro Shirato Fund, was established at Columbia University to support Japanese language study and teaching. He passed away in February 1997.
Notable Works
['Living Language Conversational Japanese']
