Died 2 July 2015 | ||
Books Communicating with the Japanese | ||
Jiří Václav Neustupný (/ˈjɪriːˈnɛʊstʊpniː/) (October 31, 1933 – July 2, 2015) was a Czech–Australian linguist and japanologist, and professor at Monash University, Australia, and Osaka University, Chiba University and Obirin University, Japan.
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Biography
Jiří V. Neustupný studied Japanese and history of the Far East at the Faculty of Philology, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1964 he obtained CSc. (Ph.D.) from the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and started to work there as a research fellow. He became professor of Japanese at Monash University, Australia, in 1966. After his retirement from Monash in 1993 he lectured in Japan at the universities in Osaka, Chiba and then Obirin. He contributed to the theory of language planning and to language education in Japan. Together with Björn Jernudd, he is a founder of the Language Management Theory. In 2013, Neustupný received the Order of the Rising Sun.