Word: viaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor of English Literature in Tokyo's Imperial University. At that time Western popular knowledge of Japan was still very Gilbert & Sullivan. Lafcadio Hearn took the real Japan to the English-speaking world just as a neurotic French naval officer named Louis Marie Julien Viaud (Pierre Loti) was taking it to France...