欧美的日本史研究,以美国为盛。美国关于日本历史的研究与教学,大致说来已经经历了三代人。第一代当推长期(1935—1953)在美国哥伦比亚大学任教的英国桑松爵士(Sir G.B.Sansom 1883—1965),著有三卷本《日本通史》(1958—1963),而他的《简明日本文化史》自1931年出版后,几十年间曾多次重印。第二代学者的代表人物是赖肖尔(E.O.Reischauer The study of Japanese history in Europe and the United States is dominated by the United States. The research and teaching about the history of Japan in the United States has generally gone through three generations. The first generation of Sir GBSansom (1883-1965), a longtime (1935-1953) Sir GBSansom taught at Columbia University, has three volumes of “General History of Japan” (1958-1963), while his “Concise Japan Cultural History ”has been reprinted several times in several decades after it was published in 1931. The second generation of scholar is represented by O.O.Reischauer