Draft:Hitoshi Kodama

Hitoshi Kodama
Hitoshi Kodama
Born	児玉仁士; 26 November 1931; Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
Died	8 February 2021 (aged 89)
Occupation	Academic
Notable work	Japansk-Frysk wurdboek

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Declined by Cabrils 2 days ago. Last edited by DannyS712 bot 47 hours ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: Well done on creating the draft, and it may potentially meet the relevant requirements (including WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, WP:NPROF, WP:AUTHOR), and has good potential, but presently it is not clear that it does.
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THe draft requires more reliable sources discussing Kodama, which I suspect exist.
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Once you have implemented these suggestions, you may also wish to leave a note for me on my talk page and I would be happy to reassess. As I said, I do think this draft has potential so please do persevere. Cabrils (talk) 23:51, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Hitoshi Kodama (Japanese: 児玉仁士, romanized: Kodama Hitoshi, 26 November 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a Japanese professor with interest in the West Frisian language of Friesland, Netherlands. He published Japansk-Frysk wurdboek, the Japanese-Frisian dictionary, in 2004.^[1]^[2]

Kodama studied Middle English at the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, where he discovered the Anglo-Frisian family of languages, where Western Frisian descented from. Since the 1990s, he came annually to Leeuwarden, where he worked on the dictionary at the [[Fryske Akademy]. Kodama completed the lexicon in 2001, after his retirement. The dictionary was published in 2004, having 1,100 pages and c. 22,500 Frisian words, along with their Japanese equivalents.^[2]

Kodama died in early February 2021, aged 89, due to kidney failure.^[2]

References

^ Kodama, Hitoshi (2015). Japansk-Frysk wurdboek [Japanese-Frisian dictionary] (in Western Frisian and Japanese). Tokyo: Daigaku Shorin. ISBN 978-4-475-00168-7. Archived from the original on 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Schrijver Fries-Japans woordenboek overleden" [Author of Frisian-Japanese dictionary died]. Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). 2021-02-21. Archived from the original on 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

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[Kodama2015-1] Kodama, Hitoshi (2015). Japansk-Frysk wurdboek [Japanese-Frisian dictionary] (in Western Frisian and Japanese). Tokyo: Daigaku Shorin. ISBN 978-4-475-00168-7. Archived from the original on 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

[lc2021-2] "Schrijver Fries-Japans woordenboek overleden" [Author of Frisian-Japanese dictionary died]. Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). 2021-02-21. Archived from the original on 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

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