Herbert P. Bix (born 1938)
[ is an American historian. He wrote '']Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' is a book by Herbert P. Bix covering the reign of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General N ...
'', an account of the Japanese Emperor
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and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism
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, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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in 2001.
Bix was born in Boston
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and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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in history
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and Far Eastern
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languages from Harvard University
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. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
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. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the United States
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and Japan
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He has taught at many universities, including Hosei University
is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.
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in Japan as of 1986 and 1990, and Hitotsubashi University
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as of 2001.[ As of 2013 he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at ]Binghamton University
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His book 'Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884' was hailed as 'a sensitive rendering of the actions of great masses of people' and a superior 'Marxist history'.]
Selected works
* ''Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884''. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986.
* "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium, Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation." ''Diplomatic History'' 19, no. 2 (1995): pp. 197–225.
* Remembering the Nanking Massacre
* Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
References
External links
Bix: Hirohito decision led to later problems
* - review of ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' is a book by Herbert P. Bix covering the reign of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General N ...
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Bix and his Hirohito: On the Use and Misuse of Sources
George Akita, The Asiatic Society of Japan, 2003-11-03
1938 births
Living people
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners
Historians of Japan
Binghamton University faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Date of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American historians
21st-century American historians
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
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