Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian. He wrote '' Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'', an account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism, which won the

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in 2001. Bix was born in

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and attended the

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. He earned the

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and Far Eastern languages from

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. He was a founding member of the

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. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the

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and

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. He has taught at many universities, including Hosei University in Japan in the years 1986 through 1990, and

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in 2001. As of 2013, he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at

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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''. HarperCollins, 2000.

References

External links

Bix: Hirohito decision led to later problems
* - review of '' Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' * * *
Bix and his Hirohito: On the Use and Misuse of Sources
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