work for prospective students of Japanese. In the dictionary's third edition, published in 1886, Hepburn adopted a new system for romanization of the Japanese language developed by the Society for the Romanization of the Japanese Alphabet (Rōmajikai). This system is widely known as the Hepburn romanization because Hepburn's dictionary popularized it. Hepburn also contributed to the translation of the Bible into Japanese. Later years Hepburn returned to the United States in 1892. On March 14, 1905, a day after Hepburn's 90th birthday, he was awarded the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, third class. Hepburn was the second foreigner to receive this honor. He died on September 21, 1911, in East Orange, New Jersey, at the age of 96. He is interred in Orange's Rosedale Cemetery. Publications (first edition) 690pp A Japanese and English dictionary: with and English and Japanese index (1867) Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary (1881) (4th edition), 962pp (gives Japanese next to romaji) A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary (1903) (2nd. ed. abridged), 1032pp (romaji only) See also List of Westerners who visited Japan before 1868 Sakoku References Further reading External links History of Meiji Gakuin University Article on Hepburn in Princeton Alumni Weekly Hepburn Christian Fellowship American expatriates in Japan American Japanologists Presbyterian missionaries in Japan Presbyterian missionaries in Singapore American lexicographers Translators of the Bible into Japanese 1815 births 1911 deaths Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class 19th-century American physicians People from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania 19th-century American translators American Presbyterian missionaries University and college founders Missionary linguists