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Entry Personal Name
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 1030009
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20221031153254.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 830616n| azannaabn |n aaa
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: n 83037839
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
- System control number: (OCoLC)oca00927232
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: DLC
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Description conventions: rda
- Transcribing agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: OCoLC
- Modifying agency: OkS
- Subject heading/thesaurus conventions: lcna
046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES
- Birth date: 19241011
- Death date: 20101110
053 #0 - LC CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
- Classification number element-single number or beginning number of span: PS3569.E88
100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Seward, Jack
370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE
- Place of birth: Houston (Tex.)
- Source of term: naf
372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY
- Field of activity: Japan--Social life and customs--20th century
- Source of term: lcsh
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: University of Texas at Dallas
- Associated group: Austin College
- Associated group: International Consulting Services Inc.
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: His The cave of the Chinese skeletons, 1964.
678 ## - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA
- Biographical or historical data: Jack Seward, one of the world's legendary authorities on Japan and a U.S. military veteran, passed away on November 10, 2010 at the age of 86 in Houston, Texas from post-stroke complications.... Born ... in Houston, Texas on October 11, 1924 ... He taught courses on Japanese culture, history and language at the University of Texas at Dallas and at Austin College ... In later years, he worked for ecology and Environment of New York at director of international operations, and then served as president of International Consulting Services Inc. in Houston. His first published work was 'The Cave of the Chinese Skeletons' in 1965, a semi-reflection of his storied years as an intelligence officer in Japan. His best known work was 'The Japanese', published by William Morrow & Co in 1972 which was selected for inclusion by the Readers Digest Book Club, making it the most widely read book on Japan culture with millions of copies sold at a time of growing Japanese economic power.