{"id":44176,"date":"2015-11-27T02:19:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T06:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44176"},"modified":"2015-11-27T02:19:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T06:19:42","slug":"japanese-tamil-scholar-and-authority-on-chola-dynasty-rule-noburo-karashima-dies-of-leukemia-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44176","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Tamil scholar  and Authority on Chola Dynasty Rule Noburo Karashima dies  of Leukemia aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>B Sivakumar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Japanese Tamil scholar and former president of the International Tamil Research Association Prof Noburo Karashima died of leukemia on Thursday. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prof Karashima died of leukemia. He was planning to visit India in January next, but he cancelled the visit and was later hospitalised,&#8221; said Y Subbarayulu, a longtime associate of Karashima.<\/p>\n<p>Karashima had served the International Tamil Research Association from 1989 till 2010. He was professor emeritus at University of Japan and Taisho University.<\/p>\n<p>Karashima, a recipient of Padma Shri award, had been associated with Tamil Nadu for several years. He was an authority on Chola period life and literature. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He used scientific methodology to study Chola villages, and his contributions along with Subburayulu were remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a great loss for Tamil literature. He was an authority on Chola-era life and literature. He researches threw light on the tax system that prevailed during the Chola period and also the social issues in that period,&#8221; said former VCK MLA D Ravikumar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was Karashima who said that caste system in Chola era was introduced during the rule of Rajendra Chola,&#8221; said Ravikumar.<\/p>\n<p>Karashima headed the International Tamil meet held in Thanjavur in 1995. As president of the International Tamil Research Association, Karashima turned down former chief minister M Karunanidhi&#8217;s request to hold a Tamil meet in Coimbatore in 2010, citing short notice. Following this, the state government conducted the Classical Tamil Conference the same year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Times of India<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton44176\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D44176&amp;text=Japanese%20Tamil%20scholar%20%20and%20Authority%20on%20Chola%20Dynasty%20Rule%20Noburo%20Karashima%20dies%20%20of%20Leukemia%20aged%2082&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By B Sivakumar Japanese Tamil scholar and former president of the International Tamil Research Association Prof Noburo Karashima died of leukemia on Thursday. He was 82. &#8220;Prof Karashima died of leukemia. He was planning to visit India in January next, but he cancelled the visit and was later hospitalised,&#8221; said Y Subbarayulu, a longtime associate &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Japanese Tamil scholar  and Authority on Chola Dynasty Rule Noburo Karashima dies  of Leukemia aged 82&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44177,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44176\/revisions\/44177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}