Ronald P. Toby (born 1942) is an American historian, academic, writer andJapanologist.

Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history fromColumbia University in 1977.^[1]

As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, theUniversity of California at Berkeley,Keio University, and theUniversity of Tokyo.^[2]

Toby's academic specialization focuses on issues having to do with pre- and early-modern Japan. His bookState and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan demonstrates that during the so-called "closed country" period in the Edo era, Japan was never truly closed to the outside world.

Tony's published writings encompass 52 works in 158 publications in 3 languages and 2,117 library holdings.^[3]

• 2019 —Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850 Leiden:Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-39062-1;OCLC 1066182857
• 2004 —Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1870 with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 9780198289050;OCLC 53388426
• 1983 —State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Princeton: Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-05401-8;OCLC 182640041
• 1977 —The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University.OCLC 6909487
• 1974 —Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title. M.A. thesis, Columbia University.OCLC 45788706

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