EDUCATION

Ph.D.: 1984, University of Washington
M.A.: 1976, University of Arizona
B.A.: 1973, University of Arizona

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor: University of South Carolina, 1991-Present
Visiting Professor: Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Fall, 2000
Assistant Professor: University of South Carolina, 1985-1991
Assistant Professor: University of California, San Diego, 1984-1985
Instructor: University of Washington, 1983
Instructor: University of Puget Sound, 1982

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Assistant Chair: Department of History, University of South Carolina, 1993-1995, 2000-Present
Director: American Council of Learned Societies, Japan Seminar, 1992-1995, 1997-2001
Chair: Executive Committee, Department of History, University of South Carolina, 1992-1993, 2005-2006.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Encyclopedia of the Modern World, 8 volumes, (Senior Editor), (New York: Oxford University Press) In Press.
• Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition (London and New York: Routledge Press, 1991).

Articles

• “Merging Lines: Organising Japan’s National Railway, 1906-1914,” Journal of Transport History, V. 27 N. 2 (September, 2006),pp. 39-59.
• “Japan in the World of Welfare Capitalism: Imperial Railroad Experiments with Welfare Work,” Labor History, V. 47 N. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 189-212.
• “Tetsudo sangyo ni okeru kisei kanwa no kanren ni tsuite” (“The Implications of Deregulation for the Railroad Industry”), Un’yu to keizai (Transport and Economics), V. 59 N. 10 (October, 1999), pp. 26-35.
• “Innovations in Labor Management Relations: Japan’s National Railroad,” Japan Studies Review, V. 1 (1997), pp. 81-92.
• "Nihon ni okeru tetsudo kokuyuka no keieiteki sokumen: Hikakuronteki kara no kosatsu" ("The Economics of Japan's Railroad Nationalization: Thoughts from a Comparative Perspective"), Un'yu to keizai (Transport and Economics), V. 56 N. 10 (October, 1996), pp. 56-65.
• “When East Met West” in Introducing Modern Japan, ed. David Briel, (Washington: Japan Culture Center, 1996), pp. 79-89.
• "Japan and South Carolina" in Survey Reports on Japan-Related Activities in the U.S., V. 2, ed. Center for Global Partnership, (Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 1994), pp. 717-738.
• "History of Asia and the Pacific," in The Readers' Adviser, V. 3, ed. John G. Sproat, (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1994), pp. 461-503.
• "Japan's Discovery of Poverty: Changing Views on Poverty and Social Welfare in the Nineteenth Century," Journal of Asian History, V. 22 N. 1 (1988), pp. 1-24.
• "Social Change and Social Ethics: Shibusawa Eiichi's Use of Confucianism," Occasional Papers, Virginia Consortium for Asian Studies, V. 5 (1988), pp. 79-92.
• "The Confucian Businessman in Modern Japan," International Symposium on Asian Studies, V. 9 (1987), pp. 161-172.

Review Article

“The Business of Railroads,” Social Science Japan Journal, V. 3 N. 2 (October, 2000), pp. 261-265.

Translation

Nakayama, Shigeru. "The American Occupation and the Science Council of Japan," in Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences, ed. Everett Mendelsohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 353-369.

Dictionary/Encyclopedia Articles

• “Cooperation and Harmony Society,” in Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, ed. James L. Huffman, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
• "Japanese Industrialization," in Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994).
• "Japanese Labor Relations," in Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994).

Reviews

• New Times in Modern Japan, Stephan Tanaka; in The Historian V. 68 N. 1 (Winter, 2006)
• The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-1933, Sandra Wilson; in Japanese Studies V. 24 N. 2 (2004)
• Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, Richard J. Samuels; in History V. 32 N. 2 (Winter, 2004)
• Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, Donald Keene; in The Historian V. 65 N. 1 (Winter, 2003)
• The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan, Andrew Gordon; in American Historical Review V. 106 N. 2 (June, 2001).
• Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth Century Japan, William M. Tsutsui; in American Historical Review V. 104 N. 4 (October, 1999).
• Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan, J. Victory Koschmann; in The Historian V. 61 N. 3 (Spring, 1999).
• Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers, Kumazawa Makoto; in Labour/Le Travail, N. 42 (Spring, 1999).
• New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan, ed. Helen Hardacre with Adam L. Kern; in Journal of Japanese Studies, V. 25 N. 1 (Winter, 1999).
• Leaders and Leadership in Japan, ed. Ian Neary; in Pacific Affairs, V. 70, No. 3 (Fall, 1997).
• The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan, Steven J. Ericson; in Journal of Japanese Studies, V. 23 N. 2 (Summer, 1997).
• Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education, Byron K. Marshall; in American Historical Review, (February, 1997).
• "Rich Nation Strong Army": National Security and the Technological Tansformation of Japan, Richard J. Samuels; in Asian Affairs, V. 23 N. 2 (Summer, 1996).
• The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan, Germaine A. Hoston; in Asian Thought and Society, N. 60 (Spring, 1996).
• Japanese Policymaking: The Politics Behind Politics. Informal Mechanisms and the Making of China Policy, Quansheng Zhao; in Asian Affairs, V. 21 N. 1 (Spring, 1994).
• The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System, Junji Banno; in Journal of Japanese Studies, V. 20 N. 1 (Winter, 1994).
• Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia, Allan Beekman; The Historian, 56:2 (Winter, 1994).
• A History of Japan's Government - Business Relationship: The Passenger Car Industry, Phyllis A. Genther; in Perspectives on Political Science, V. 21 N. 3 (Summer, 1992).
• The Ambivalence of Nationalism: Modern Japan between East and West, ed. James W. White, Michio Umegaki, and Thomas R.H. Havens; in Journal of Japanese Studies, V. 18 N. 1 (Winter, 1992).
• The Rise of Modern Japan, W.G. Beasley; in The Historian,V. 53 N. 4 (Summer, 1991).
• The Japanese Achievement, Hugh Cortazzi; in History, V. 19 N. 3 (Spring, 1991).
• The Future Japan, Tokutomi Soho, trans. and ed. Vinh Sinh; in Journal of Asian Studies, V. 50 N. 1 (February, 1991).
• The State and Labor in Modern Japan, Sheldon Garon; in Journal of Asian Studies, V. 47 N. 3 (August, 1988).
• The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945, Leon V. Sigal; in Perspectives on Political Science, V. 17 N. 3 (Summer, 1988).
• Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudo, Merchant Academy of Osaka, Tetsuo Najita; in History of Education Quarterly, V. 28 N. 1 (Spring, 1988).
• The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790- 1864, J. Victor Koschmann; in Asian Thought and Society, V. 13 N. 37 (January, 1988).
• Populist Nationalism in Prewar Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigo, Leslie Russell Oates; in Journal of Asian History, V. 20 N. 3 (1987).
• Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History, Janet H. Hunter; in Journal of Asian Studies, V. 45 N. 2 (February, 1986).
• Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State, Jay Rubin; in Law in Japan, V. 19 (1986).
• Censorship in Imperial Japan, Richard H. Mitchell; in Law in Japan, V. 19 (1986).
• The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man, Earl H. Kinmonth; in Journal of Asian Studies, V. 44 N. 4 (August, 1985).
• Also a regular reviewer for Choice and History: Reviews of New Books and an abstracter for Historical Abstracts.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Association for Asian Studies, October, 2003
  Panel: Japan from Westernization to Industrialization
  Paper: “The Japanese State Does Business: The Imperial Railroad Experiments with Welfare Capitalism”
• University of Hong Kong, Department of History and the Institute for International Studies, November, 2000
  “ Welfare Capitalism in Prewar Japan”
• University of Tokyo, Institute for Social Sciences, October, 2000
  Demystifying Industrial Paternalism: Fringe Benefits in Japan and Elsewhere”
• Southern Japan Seminar, October, 1996
  " Railroad Nationalization in Japan"
• New York Conference on Asian Studies, September,1995
  Panel: Issues in the History of National Development in East Asia
  Paper: "Personnel Policy on Japan's National Railroad, 1907-1920"
• ACLS Japan Seminar, February, 1995
  " Organizing Technology: Early JNR Developments"
• Southern Regional Japan Studies Seminar, October, 1994
  "Managers and Workers on Japan's National Railroad, 1907-1920"
• Southern Regional Japan Studies Seminar, October, 1989.
  Paper: "The Moral Dimensions of Modern Japanese Social Policy"
• Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, March, 1989.
  Panel: The Enduring Paradigm: The Confucian Bedrock in Japanese Thought
  Paper: "Confucian Language and Social Values in Meiji and Taisho Japan"
• Washington Japan Seminar, February, 1988.
  " Confucian Ethics and Business Ideology"
• Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, March, 1986.
  Panel: Unemployment, Poverty, and Social Welfare in Prewar Japan
  Paper: "The Discovery of Poverty: The Meiji State and
  the Poor"
• San Diego State University, Japan Studies Seminar, April, 1985.
  " Social Policy in Interwar Japan"
• Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, April, 1982.
  Panel: Japanese Labor Policy Under Authoritarianism,
  1931-1945
  Paper: "The Kyochokai and the Contradiction of Liberal Labor Policy"

PUBLIC LECTURES

• Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, D.C.,
  Invited Lecture, September 1995.
  " When East Met West"
• University of Oregon, Center of Asian and Pacific Studies, Invited Lecture, February, 1992
  " Social Policy in Prewar Japan"
• University of Illinois, Institute of Asian and Pacific Studies, Invited Lecture, April, 1989
  " Social Welfare and Social Policy in Taisho Japan"
• University of South Carolina, Department of History, March, 1989
  " Moral Issues in Modern Japanese Social Reform"

SYMPOSIA PARTICIPATION

• Liberty Fund Colloquium; “Capitalism and the Rise of the West,” Stanford University, June, 1997.
• Columbia University Japan Seminar, March, 1993.
  Roundtable Participant: "The Political Meaning of Rural Poverty in Prewar Japan."
• University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies; Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Latin America and East Asia, December, 1984.
  Panel Member: Class Structure and Development
• Social Science Research Council Workshop; “Gender Issues in Japanese Studies,” University of Washington, June, 1984.

FELLOWSHIPS

• Research and Productive Scholarship Grant (USC), 1998
• Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, 1995-1996
• Research and Productive Scholarship Grant (USC), 1994
• Southern Regional Education Board Travel Grant, 1991
• Research and Productive Scholarship Grant (USC), 1991
• Venture Fund Grant (USC), 1988
• Research and Productive Scholarship Grant (USC), 1986
• Northeast Asian Area Council Travel Grant, 1986
• Southern Regional Education Board Travel Grant, 1986
• National Resource Fellowship, 1981-1983
• Japan Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 1981
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1978-1979
• Japan Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 1977
• National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1976-1978
• Bernard Bernstein Memorial Fellowship, 1974-1975

AWARDS

• University of South Carolina, 1994, Preferred Faculty Member recognition from the Division of Student Affairs
• University of South Carolina, 1993, Preferred Faculty Member recognition from the Division of Student Affairs
• University of South Carolina, 1989, Mortar Board Teaching Excellence Award

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• American Historical Association
• Association of Asian Studies
• ACLS Japan Seminar
• The Society for Japanese Studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Political Responses to Industrial Growth and Modern Society
• Labor Policy
• Railroads and Society
• The Politics of Social Welfare

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Japanese History
• East Asian History and Culture
• Transport History
• Comparative Economic Development

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birthdate: June 12, 1945.
Married with two children.