John Breen (scholar)

John Breen at a conference in Tokyo, February 2011

John Lawrence Breen (born 3 March 1956)[1] is a British academic and Japanologist. He is a specialist in Japanese history at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (国際日本文化研究センター, Nichibunken) in Kyoto. He writes in English and Japanese on the history of Shinto and the imperial institution.

  1. ^ Library of Congress authority file, John Breen, n2002-55791