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Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

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Jackson H. Bailey (1925 – August 2, 1996) was an American academic who was noted expert in Japanese history, culture, and Japanese-American relations.

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He was fluent in Japanese and studied at several eminent Japanese universities, including the University of Kyoto and the University of Tokyo.

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Bailey also founded the Assistant English Teaching Program, which over the last two decades of his life sent approximately 170 youthful college graduates to the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku to teach English to Japanese junior high school students.

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