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viii • EDITOR’S FOREWORD
acronyms facilitates reading on foreign policy, and the bibliography
provides many useful suggestions for further reading.
This volume was written by an interesting team of specialists, an
American, an Australian, and a Japanese, each with somewhat different
specializations and sometimes also a different angle, which helps provide
a more balanced picture. John Van Sant is associate professor of
history at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, with particular interest
in 19th-century Japan and its international relations, and the author
of Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii,
1850–1880. Peter Mauch is a post-doctoral fellow of the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, presently studying at Kyoto University,
and who is writing a biography of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura.
Yoneyuki Sugita is associate professor of American history at Osaka
University of Foreign Studies and is the author of Pitfall or Panacea:
The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan 1945–1952 and co-editor of
Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth
Century. This collaboration has provided us with a broad and deep view
of a somewhat peculiar, but certainly crucial, team of players in an increasingly
messy world situation.
Jon Woronoff
Series Editor