Kenneth Pletcher
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Ken Pletcher was Senior Editor, Geography and History for Encyclopædia Britannica. He holds an M.A. in Japanese studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of his master's program, he spent an academic year studying in Kobe, Japan. He also received a B.A. from the same institution in political science, with a minor in Asian studies. He worked at Britannica from 1979 to 2016, when he retired.
He edited The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations that Changed the Modern World and other books for the Britannica Educational Publishing imprint.
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Takeda Shingen was a daimyo (feudal lord) and one of the most-famous military leaders of Japan, who struggled for mastery of the strategic Kantō Plain in east-central Honshu during the chaotic Sengoku (“Warring States”) period of civil unrest in the 16th century. Takeda is especially well known for…
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