Education

Ph.D. 1987 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Major Field: Japanese History.

Secondary Fields: Modern China; War and Society in Western Europe & the U.S.

M.A. 1970 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Far Eastern Studies. Major: Far Eastern History. Minor Fields: Japanese Literature; Chinese Social Institutions.

B.A. 1969 Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A., Honors and Distinction in History. Meade Prize in History.

Academic and Research Experience

1988– Professor, Department of History, The William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey. Assistant Prof. 1988-1995. Associate Prof. 1995-1999. Professor 1999- . Director of Asian Studies, 2006- .

2005–2006 Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, Australian Defence Studies Forum, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, and Research Fellow, Australian War Museum, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

2004–2005 Adjunct Professor of History, University of Maryland University College

2000 Visiting Professor, Australian Defence Force Academy and the School of History, University College, The University of New South Wales, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

1998– Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. Visiting Scholar 1998-2000. Appointed Reischauer Institute Associate-in-Research, June 2000– .

1994–1995 Visiting Professor of Strategy and Policy and Secretary of the Navy Research Fellow, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

1988–1989 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research, Tokyo University, Japan.

1988–1993 Director, Japanese History and Culture Curriculum, University of California San Diego–Japan Performing Arts Center Summer Program in Japanese Culture and Theatre, Toga Village, Higashi–Tonami Gun, Toyama Prefecture, Japan

1987–1988 Lecturer in History, Department of History, University of California San Diego

1987 Lecturer in History, Board of History, Merrill College, University of California Santa Cruz

1984–1987 Doctoral Candidate Completing Dissertation, Princeton University

1981–1984 Military and Political Analyst, Office of East Asian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency

1977–1981 Sponsored Lecturer in History and Government, Asia Division, University of Maryland

1975–1978 Foreign Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research, Tokyo University, Japan.

1973–1974 Assistant–in–Instruction, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

Doctoral Dissertation

“The Japanese Officer Corps: The Making of a Military Elite, 1872-1945,” Department of History, Princeton University. Dissertation Supervisor: Professor Marius B. Jansen. I also worked with Professors Richard Challener, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Marion J. Levy, and Sheldon Garon on the project.

Major Publications

Japan at War. An Oral History. New York: The New Press, 1992. With Haruko Taya Cook. Selected a New York Times Notable Book of 1992; Military Book Club Main Selection. Paperback, 1993. Australian edition: Melbourne: HarperCollins, 1995. Editions in French, German, and Chinese.

“Making ‘Soldiers’: The Army and the Japanese Man in Meiji Society and State,” in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds., Gendering Modern Japanese History. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005, 259-294.

"Japanese Facing the End," in the V.J. Day Anniversary Issue of Everyone's War: Journal of the Second World War Experience Center, Leeds, England. Vol. 12 (Autumn/Winter 2005), 35-41.

“A lost war in living memory: Japan’s Second World War," With Haruko Taya Cook. European Review. Vol.11, No. 4 (October 2003), 573-593.

"The China War: A Bibliographic Exploration of the Japan-China Conflict, 1931-1945," Web Publication at Harvard University: Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War 1931-1945. See project web page: (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/sino-japanese/).

“The Mongols in the Making of Japan’s National Identity: Invasion from Across the Sea and the Legend of the Kamikaze." Proceedings of The Chinggis Khan Symposium in Memory of Gombojab Hangin, Mongol-American Cultural Association and the International Mongol Studies Association Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: 2001. 45-76.

"The Chinese Discovery of the New World. 15^th Century," in Robert Cowley, ed., What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. pp. 85-104.

"Tokyo, December 8, 1941," in Robert Cowley, ed., No End Save Victory. Perspectives on World War II. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. pages 131-143.

"The Japanese Perspective," in Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang, eds., The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain. London: Pimlico.2000. pages 108-120.

"Our Midway Disaster," in Robert Cowley, ed., What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. pages 311-339.

“Meiji shin kokka to heishi. Sekai butai no tanjô.” (The New Meiji State and Soldiers. Japan’s Debut on the World Stage), in Satô Hideo and Yamamoto Taketoshi, eds., Nihon no kin-gendaishi to rekishi kyôiku (Modern and Contemporary Japanese History and History Education) Tokyo: Tsukiji Shokan. 1996, pages 44-56.

“Heishi to kokka, heishi to shakai: Yôbei sekai e Nihon no Sannyû,” (Soldiers and the State, Soldiers and Society: Japan Joins the Western World) in Junji Banno, ed., Nihon Kin-Gendaishi (A History of Modern and Contemporary Japan), Vol. 2: Shihonshugi to "Jiyûshugi" (Capitalism and “Liberalism”). Tokyo: Iwanami Shôten, 1993. pages 257-298.

“Mongol Invasion. The Birth of Japan’s Kamikaze Legend. Were the ‘Sacred Shores’ of Japan Spared from the Wrath of Kublai Khan by the “Divine Wind”? for MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Winter 1999 (Vol. 11, No. 2), 8-19

“Our Midway Disaster,” in “The Road Not Taken....” Special Feature on Alternative History, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Spring 1998, Vol. 10, No. 3. p. 76.

Entries on Yamamoto Isoroku, Yamagata Aritomo, Yamashita Tomoyuki, Terauchi Masaki, Tôjô Hideki, Nagumo Chûichi, and the Kamikaze Special Attack Force in Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker, eds., The Readers’ Guide to Military History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.)

“The Merchant Seaman’s Tale,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Winter 1993, Vol. 5, No. 2. pp. 108-111.

“Tokyo: December 8, 1941; Dawn of a New War,” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Autumn 1991, Vol. 4, No. 1. pp. 30-35.

“Cataclysm and Career Rebirth: The Imperial Military Elite,” in David W. Plath, ed., Work and Lifecourse in Japan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. pp. 135-152.

“The Japanese Reserve Experience: From ‘Nation-in-Reserve’ to ‘Base-Line Defense,’” in L. Zurcher and G. Harries-Jenkins, eds., Supplementary Military Forces: Reserves, Militias, and Auxiliaries, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1978. pp. 259-273.

“British Policy Toward Japan During the Shanghai Incident of 1932,” Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in Far Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1970

Current Book Projects:

Inside Japan's War: The Japanese Experience, 1937-1945. Under contract with Viking Books for Penguin-Putnam Press.

The Japanese Army, 1870-1945. Under contract with Routledge Press, in the Routledge-Oxford University Nissan Centre Series in Japanese Studies.

Scholarly and/or Creative Work in Progress (in addition to book listed above):

The Emperor's Soldiers: Japanese Soldier in State and Society

Major Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2005–2006 Fulbright Research Award, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and U.S. Australian Fulbright Committee, to Australian Defense Studies Centre, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Historical Research Centre, Australian War Memorial—6 months support as Research Scholar

1998-2000 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for Research in Violence, Aggression, and Dominance

1999 Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship at the Library of Congress

1996 Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, Research Travel Grant for Japan

1994-1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, NEH College Division

1994 Nobel Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway

1994-1995 Secretary of the Navy Research Fellow, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

1994-1995 New Jersey Faculty Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University in Project on War, Peace, and Society in Historical Perspective

1993 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, NEH Small College Division

1991 Japan Foundation, International Conference Award for “The Pacific War and Modern Memory: War Culture and Society” at William Paterson College, December 5-8, 1991

1991 Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, Research Travel Grant for Japan

1990 National Endowment for the Humanities, NEH Travel to Collections Grant for Japan

1988-1989 Japan Foundation, Professional Fellowship for Research in Japan

1987 Fellow, Summer Teaching Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control, UC San Diego

1977-1978 Japan Foundation, Dissertation Research Fellowship for Research in Japan

1975-1976 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

Major Papers, Public Lectures, and Commentaries (Recent only)

"Nationalizing Private Thought: The Inner World of Japanese Soldiers in Japan's Lost Pacific War," presented at the panel entitled “Self-Discipline and Survival: Soldiers’ Diaries and Subjectivity in China and Japan, 1937-1945” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Jan. 5, 2006,

"Art and Literary Production in Sugamo Prison Under American Occupation, 1945-1952," Discussant at Conference sponsored by Department of East Asian, Princeton University, October 20-22, 2005.

"Inside Japan's Final Days: Ending the Greater East Asia War," 60^th Anniversary Reflections on The End of World War II Conference, New York Military Affairs Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, October 15, 2005.

"Japan and its History," Invited Lecture, Teacher's Workshop on Japan, Consulate General of Japan, New York, NY, March 8, 2005

"Operation Shô: The Japanese 'Defense' of Leyte from Sixty Years On," New York Military Affairs Symposium, December 17, 2004.

"Japan's War: Thinking About the Consequences of International Arrogance," William Paterson University History Graduate Colloquia and Symposium Series on the Second World War, October 18, 2004.

"Long Shadows: The Russo-Japanese War and Japan's Second World War," prepared for the Centennial of the Russo-Japanese War Conference of the Gunjishi Gakkai (The Military History Association of Japan) in Tokyo, Japan, May 29, 2004

"Unearthing Japan’s War in China, " Faculty Colloquium for the Program in Asian Studies at William Paterson University,” April 19, 2004.

Discussant on the Japanese Soldier’s Experience of War at the International Conference on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, Sponsored by the Asia Center of Harvard University, in Maui, Hawaii. January 6-11, 2004. Will be editing paper by Professor Ryôichi Tobe of Japan's National Defense University on Japanese Operations in Central China, 1937-1938 for Conference Volume

"War/Memory," lecture in the "Myra's War: Artists in Times of Crisis," Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the University of Washington, School of Drama, Dance Program, and School of Music, November 21, 2002.

"Japan's Pre-Pearl Harbor Plans", Presentation at the "Autumn1941" Conference of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, New York, NY. November 3, 2001.

"Constructing History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Institutionalization of War Memories in Japan", Panel Chair, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 24, 2001.

"The Battle of Midway: The Possibilities for Disaster" Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin Texas. November 16, 2000

Leadership in Professional Associations

Columbia University Seminar on Modern Japan (Co-Chair 2003–05, 1997–99, 1991–1993, Executive Committee 1991– ); Centre for Second World War Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Advisory Board, 1996– ; New York Military Affairs Symposium [NYMAS] Executive Board 1993– ; Gunjishi Gakkai [Military History Assoc. of Japan]. Harvard Sino-Japanese Relations Project, founding member 1998– . Contributor, Australian War Memorial Web Project on the Australian-Japanese War 2000– . Contributing Editor, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, 1995– ; Friends of the Asia Collection, Library of Congress 2004– .

August 2006