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Dr. Herbert P. Bix
Professor (Joint with Sociology) & Vice Chair, 
Director of Graduate Studies,
Office: LT 708
Department of History,
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
Phone: (607)777-3417
hbix@binghamton.edu 

Susan E. Barker
Executive Director of Research Advancement
(607) 777-2640
sbarker@binghamton
.edu
 


Herbert P. Bix, Ph.D.
Professor (Joint with Sociology) & Vice Chair, 
Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of History,
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

Professor Herbert Bix is a Japan historian and student of the political, military, and social history of 19th and 20th century Japan. He has taught undergraduate courses on all periods of Japanese history and on Western historiography of Japan. At the graduate level he shall be offering seminars on war crimes law and American wars in Asia, comparative monarchy, and comparative constitutions. 

Bix works with students on topics related to Japan and East Asia, and and particularly welcomes applications from students interested in studying modern Japanese political, diplomatic, and military history. His current research centers on the Asia-Pacific War and its aftermath, Western images of the Showa emperor Hirohito, and Japanese constitutional thought.

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Books: 

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 



Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1884. Yale University Press 1986; reprinted in Yale paperback, 1992. 

Recent Articles: 

  • "War Crimes Law and American Wars in 20th Century Asia," Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (July 2001), 119-132. 

  • "In Search of Emperor Hirohito: Ideology and Decision-Making in Imperial Japan," forthcoming in 2001. 

  • "Rekishi no nazo toshite no Showa tenno [The Showa Emperor as an Historical Enigma]," bibliographical essay in Nenpo: Nihon gendaishi 1998, No. 4 (Tokyo: Gendai Shiryo Shuppan, 1998), pp. 329-346. 

  • "Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation" in Diplomatic History, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring 1995), 197-225; reprinted in Michael J. Hogan, ed., Hiroshima in History and Memory (Cambridge University Press, 1996). 

  • "American Japan Studies at the End of the 20th Century" in Awaya Kentaro, Toyoshimo Naruhiko, et al., eds, Nenpo: Nihon gendaishi 1995, sokango (Tokyo: Azuma Shuppan, 1995), 231-248. 

  • "Inventing the 'Symbol Monarchy' in Japan, 1945-52," in Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer 1995), 319-363.



             

 HONORS AND AWARDS

 

  • Pulitzer Prize, 2001 

  • National Book Critics Circle Award, 2001 

  • United States-Japan Educational Commission (Fulbright Program)--Research Grant award to conduct research in Japan, December 1992- July 1993. 
             


 



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