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INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• HISTORY
  cultural history; early modern and modern history; history of US-Japan relations; Meiji Restoration; political and diplomatic history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  communism; comparative politics; domestic politics; elections; foreign policy and international relations; political institutions; political parties; public diplomacy; security relations; US policy affecting Japan-US relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lecturer, Foreign Affairs Officer, US Department of State, 1980-present; Research Analyst/Chief Northeast Asia Branch, Office of Intelligence Research, Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State, 1955-75; Assistant Professor, History, University of California, 1954-55; Intelligence Officer, US Government, 1946-47; Private to Captain, US Army, 1944-46; Japanese Instructor, Military Intelligence Service Language School, US War Department, 1942-44.

IN JAPAN: 1933-36 - study; 1961-68, 1972-75 - foreign service; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Foreign Relations," Japan: A Country Study (American University, 1982); Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan: The Sankin Kotai System (Harvard University Press, 1966); Postwar Development of Japanese Communist Strategy (MIT, 1954).