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 | | Malcolm Duncan Kennedy, O.B.E., (1895-1984), expert on Japanese affairs, had a varied career as army officer, businessman, civil servant and intelligence officer, during which he spent some two decades in Japan. |
 | | Kennedy was born in Edinburgh, though some of his earliest years were spent in Penang, and educated at Glenalmond School. |
 | | From 1945 until his retirement in 1955 he worked for S.I.S. Jon Pardoe's doctoral thesis Captain Malcolm Kennedy and Japan, 1917-1945 was based largely on the papers and diaries in the collection and was undertaken in the Centre of Japanese Studies, being presented in 1990. |
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