Herbert Bix

Pulitzer Prize winning author
Professor of History and Sociology
Binghamton University

"Collateral Damage: the Rhetoric of War Crimes in 21st Century America"

Friday, March 14, 2008
10:30 am - C103 Hesburgh Center

"War Responsibility and Historical Memory: The Case of Hirohito, Japan's Last Political Emperor"

Friday, March 14, 2008
4:15 pm - C100 Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, Undergraduate Studies in Arts & Letters, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Economics and Policy Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, College of Arts & Letters, and the Department of History

Biography

Professor Herbert P. Bix is the author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. The book, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, provides an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism.

Professor Bix earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern language from Harvard University, has taught at many universities in Japan and the United States, and is currently a professor of history and sociology at Binghamton University. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history.