James Murdoch was a Scottish Orientalist scholar and journalist, who worked as a teacher in the Empire of Japan and Australia. From 1903 to 1917, he wrote his "monumental" three-volume A History of Japan, the first comprehensive history of Japan in the English language. In 1917 he began teaching Japanese at the University of Sydney and in 1918 he was appointed the foundation professor of the School of Oriental Studies there.
- Occupation
- journalist, historian, japanologist
- Position held
- foreign government advisor in Meiji Japan
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 27, 1856
