Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911)
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Physician and Presbyterian missionary to Japan in the late 19th century, he devised the widely used Hepburn romanization method to transcribe Japanese into the Latin alphabet. Hepburn published the first English-Japanese dictionary, translated the Bible into Japanese, introduced Western medicine to Japan, and founded Meiji Gakuin University.
All were influential in opening Japan to the Western world. Dr. Hepburn was born here.
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