Historical Dictionary of United States-Japan ... - Bakumatsu Films

About the Authors
John Van Sant (Ph.D., Univ. of Oregon) is associate professor of history
at the University of Alabama–Birmingham (USA). His book, Pacific
Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850–1880
(University of Illinois Press, 2000) is a transnational and transcultural
examination of many of the first Japanese who lived in the United States.
He also edited and introduced a new edition of Arinori Mori’s Life and
Resources in America (Lexington Books, 2004), an examination of the
American political, social, and cultural landscape by Japan’s first resident
diplomat in Washington, D.C., and originally published in 1872.
Peter Mauch is a lecturer of international history at Ritsumeikan University,
Kyoto, Japan. He has recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship
at Kyoto University, and is writing a biography of Admiral Nomura
Kichisaburo, entitled, Sailor Diplomat: Nomura Kichisaburo and the
Japanese–American War. He has published numerous articles detailing
Nomura’s pre- and post–Pacific War efforts to place Japanese–American
relations on a cordial footing.
Yoneyuki Sugita is associate professor of American history at Osaka
University of Foreign Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Pitfall or
Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 (New
York: Routledge, 2003) and Irony of Hegemony: The Asia–Pacific War
and US Policy toward East Asia (Kyoto: Sekai Shisosha, 1999) (in
Japanese). He is also co-editor with Richard Jensen and Jon Davidann
of Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth
Century (New York: Praeger, 2003).
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