Michael Cooper (historian)
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Michael John Cooper (1930 – 31 March 2018[1]) was an American historian. Briefly a Jesuit himself,[2] Cooper wrote extensively on 15th- and 16th-century encounters between Jesuit missionaries and Japan. He was editor of the journal Monumenta Nipponica in Tokyo for 26 years (1971–1996) and was also formerly a president of the Asiatic Society of Japan.[3][4][5]
