Distinguished Associate

Asia/Pacific Research Center

Encina Hall, Room 200
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

TEL: (415) 723-9741
FAX: (415) 723-6530
HOME: (415) 692-1657
Email: hholland@sfsu.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  consumer behavior; government bureaucracy
• EDUCATION
  education and society; Japanese language instruction in US
• HISTORY
  history of US-Japan relations; political and diplomatic history; World War II
• LANGUAGE
  language learning
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  defense policy, political culture, political institutions, political parties, security relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  Japanese perceptions of the US; Sumo wrestling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Advisor, Sano Foundation, 1988-91; Diplomat-in-Residence, Professor, Director, US-Japan Institute, San Francisco State University, 1971-80; International Relations Officer, US Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State, 1947-73.

IN JAPAN: 1980-81, 1992-93 - visiting professor; 1954-56, 1958-66 - foreign service; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

The Mogamigawa (Yamagata Prefectural Government, 1994); Japan Challenges America: Managing an Alliance in Crisis (Westview Press, 1992); Managing Defense: Japan's Dilemma (University Press of America, 1988); Managing Diplomacy: The United States and Japan (Hoover Institution Press, 1984).