Pending
Retired
Risshin shusse no shakai shi: samurai kara sarariiman made [ The social history of self-advancement: from samurai to salaryman] (Tama daigaku shuppankai, 1995).
The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salaryman (University of California Press, 1981).
2019 "Much ado about very little: the [2015] Japanese government order that Japanese national universities abolish their humanities and social science programs," pp. 101-139 in Dennis A. Ahlburg, ed., The Changing Face of Higher Education: Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities?" (Routledge, 2019).
2005 "Igirisu ni okeru kenkyû hyôka no mondaiten" [Problems With the Research Assessment Exercise in England], Pp. 127-182 in Shin-jidai wo kirihiraku daigaku hyûka – Nihon to Igirisu , Edited by Yumiko Hata (Toshindo, 2005).
2000 "Lifelong Learning in the United Kingdom: A Brief History and Discussion of Recent Trends Under 'New Labour'." Pp. 212-226 in Shin-shôgai gakushû gairon [A New Outline of Lifelong Learning], Edited by Hiruta Michiharu. (Tokyo, Nichijô shuppan, 2000).
1999 "The Mouse that Roared: Saitô Takao, Conservative Critic of Japan's 'Holy War' in China." Journal of Japanese Studies 25:2 (Summer, 1999): 331-360.
1998 "Fukuzawa Reconsidered: Gakumon no susume and its Audience." Journal of Asian Studies 37:4 (1978, August): 677-696. Reprinted in Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912 , Edited by Peter Kornicki. (London: Routledge, 1998).
1998 "Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and a Confucian Victorian." The American Historical Review 85:3 (June, 1980): 535-556. Reprinted in Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912 , Edited by Peter Kornicki. (London: Routledge, 1998).
1995 "Engineers and Economic Performance: Issues in Cross National Comparison." Occasional Papers: The London Office of Hosei University . No. 12 (1995): 67-90.
1992 "The Impact of Military Procurements on the Old Middle Classes in Japan, 1931-1941." Japan Forum . (October, 1992): 247-265.
1991 "Japanese Engineers and American Myth Makers." Pacific Affairs . 64:3 (Fall, 1991): 328-350.
1990 "Nihon no kôgaku kyôiku to sono hôshû" [Engineering Education and Its Rewards in Japan]. Pp. 207-238 in Hendô suru shakai no kyôiku seido [The Changing System of Social Education], Ed. Amano Ikuo and Iwaki Hideo. (Kyôiku kaihatsu kenkyûjo, 1990).
1989 "Business-University Links in Japan." Engineering Education . (May-June, 1989): 485-490.
1987 "Japanese Patents: Olympic Gold or Public Relations Brass." Pacific Affairs . 60:2 (Summer, 1987): 173-199.
1986 "Engineering Education and Its Rewards in the United States and Japan." Comparative Education Review . 30:3 (August, 1986): 396-416.
1985 "Can Japanese Squeeze Into One Middle Class or Not?" Japan Times (March 17, 1985): 12.
1985 "Kôgaku kyôiku to gijutsusha no Nichi-Bei hikaku" [Engineers and Their Education: the US and Japan Compared] IDE: Kôtô kyôiku [Institute for Democratic Education: Higher Education] 266 (October-November, 1985): 32-39.
1984 "Bibliofile: Humanizing the UNIX System," Computers and the Humanities. (1984): 71-85.
1980 "Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and a Confucian Victorian." The American Historical Review 85:3 (June, 1980): 535-556.
1978 "Fukuzawa Reconsidered: Gakumon no susume and its Audience." Journal of Asian Studies 37:4 (1978, August): 677-696.
1999 Review of Rikugun Shôkô no Kyôiku Shakaishi: Risshin Shusse to Tennôsei by Hirota Teruyuki. Social Science Japan Journal 2:2 (October, 1999): 301-305.
1997 Review of The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 by Joshua A. Fogel. American Historical Review 102:1 (February, 1997): 156-257.
1997 Review of Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology Management Practices Edited by J. K. Liker, J. E. Ettlie, and J. C. Campbell. Asia Pacific Business Review 4:3 (Summer, 1997): 243-244.
1997 Review of Kanji Politics: Language Policy and Japanese Script by N. Gottlieb. Asia Pacific Business Review 3:3 (Spring, 1997): 186-187.
1992 Review of Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management by Michael A. Cusumano. Pacific Affairs 65:3 (1992:Fall): 411-412.
1992 Review of Shôshaman A Tale of Corporate Japan by Arai Shinya [translated by Chieko Mulhern]. Japan Forum (1992): 208.
1992 Review of Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan by Andrew Gordon. Business History Review (1992: Autumn): 718-720.
1991 Review of Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology by Daniel I. Okimoto. Administrative Science Quarterly 36:2 (1991: June): 304-306.
1988 Review of The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence by J. Marshall Unger. Pacific Affairs 61:3 (1988: Fall): 522-523.
1988 Review of Japan's High Technology Industries: Lessons and Limitations of Industrial Policy edited by Hugh Patrick. Pacific Affairs 61:1 (1988: Spring): 156-158.
1987 Review of Osugi Sakae: Anarchist in Taishô Japan: The Creativity of the Ego by Thomas A. Stanley. American Historical Review 92:5 (1987: December): 1261.
1987 Review of Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960 by Sharon Nolte. Pacific Affairs 60:4 (1987-1988: Winter): 682-683.
1986 Review of Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era 1868-1912 edited by Hilary Conroy. Pacific Affairs 59:1 (1986: Spring): 120-122.
1986 Review of Japanese Electronics Technology: Enterprise and Innovation by Gene Gregory. Pacific Affairs 59:2 (1986: Summer): 319-320.
1985 Review of Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State by Jay Rubin. Pacific Affairs 58:2 (1985: Summer): 330-331.
1984 Review of Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan by Richard Rubinger. American Historical Review 89:5 (1984: December): 1376.
1984 Review of Censorship in Imperial Japan by Richard H. Mitchell. Pacific Affairs 57:3 (1984: Fall): 504-505.
1982 Review of Japan and Its World by Marius B. Jansen. History Teacher 15:2 (1982: February): 308-309.
1981 Review of Tokutomi Sohô, 1863-1957: A Journalist for Modern Japan by John D. Pierson. Journal of Asian Studies 41:1 (1981: November): 152-154.
1978 Review of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite by Ann Waswo. Agricultural History 52:4 (1978: October): 557-559.
1997 Conservative Opposition to Militarism: The Saitô Takao Expulsion Incident of 1940. Japan Labor Economics Study Group (Sakurabayashi kenkyûkai), Odawara, Japan, December, 1997.
1997 Conservative Opposition to Militarism: The Saitô Takao Expulsion Incident of 1940. Sociology Department, Hosei University, November, 1997.
1997 Conservative Opposition to Militarism: The Saitô Takao Expulsion Incident of 1940. Keizai hatten kenkyûkai [Economic Development Study Group], Hitotsubashi University, July, 1997.
1997 "Engineers and Economic Performance: Issues in Cross National Comparison." Graduate Research Seminar, Economics Department, Osaka University, May, 1997.
1995 Cyberspace or Cyberbunk: Doubts About the Electronic Frontier. Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., April, 1995.
1994 Conservative Opposition to Militarism: The Saitô Takao Expulsion Incident of 1940. Centre for Korean and Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, November, 1994.
1994 Militarism and the Graduate Job Market in 1930s Japan. Centre for Korean and Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, November, 1994.
1994 British Higher Education: An Insider's View. School of Education, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, May, 1994.
1993 New Developments in Japanese Language Software for IBM-Compatible Computers (Japan Research Centre, SOAS, University of London, May, 1993).
1993 Mid-life Crisis in a Middle-Class Nation: Japan Before and After the Bubble (British Association of Japanese Studies, Manchester, April, 1993).
1993 Japanese Text Processing on Personal Computers (British Association of Japanese Studies, Manchester, April, 1993).
1991 The Impact of Military Procurements on the Old Middle Classes in Japan, 1931-1941 (British Association of Japanese Studies, Sheffield, England, April, 1991).
1990 Japanese Engineers and American Myth-Makers (Conference on Continuity and Change in Japanese Education, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 1990: October).
1990 Japanese Engineers and American Myth-Makers (Japan Research Centre, SOAS, University of London, January, 1991).
1990 Japanese Engineers and American Myth-Makers (Nissan Institute, Oxford University, February, 1991).
1990 Who Profited from Militarism in Japan? A Revisionist View (School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London, 1990: June).
1990 Saitô Takao and Petty Bourgeois Opposition to Militarism (British Association for Japanese Studies, New Castle Upon Tyne, 1990: April).
1990 Saitô Takao and Petty Bourgeois Opposition to Militarism (History Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1990: October).
1988 What Made Japan Different [Commentary] (UC Intercampus Group in Economic History: Santa Cruz, 1988: April).
1987 Militarism: Costs and Benefits for the Middle Classes in Early (1931-1941) Shôwa Japan (East Asian Institute, Columbia University: New York, 1987: March).
1986 Victims and Victimizers: The Japanese Experience in the US [Comment]. (American Historical Association: Chicago, 1986: December).
1985 Pathologist or Apologist: Maruyama Masao on Japanese Fascism. (Seminar on the Sociology of Education, School of Education, University of Tokyo: Tokyo, 1985: June).
1985 Militarism and the Middle Classes in Early (1931-1941) Shôwa Japan (Tôhô gakkai: Tokyo, 1985: May).
1985 Militarism and the Middle Classes in Early (1931-1941) Shôwa Japan (Tôhô gakkai; Economic Research Society, Kobe University: Tôkyô Kobe, 1985: May; 1985: June).
1985 Engineers and Engineering Education in the United States and Japan (Kokuritsu kyôiku kenkyûjo [National Institute for Educational Research], Tokyo: Tokyo, 1985: March).
1984 Will the Real Samurai Please Stand Up! (Pacific Historical Association: Seattle, 1984: August).
1984 Pathologist or Apologist: Maruyama Masao on Japanese Fascism. (Center for Japanese Studies, UCB: Berkeley, 1984: April).
1984 Pathologist or Apologist: Maruyama Masao on Japanese Fascism. (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC): LA, 1984: June).
1979 The Sarariiman (Salaryman): 1915-1935 (Center for Japanese Studies, UCB: Berkeley, 1979: October).
1978 The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought (Stanford University: Stanford, 1978: April).
1978 Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and Confucian Victorian (Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, UCB: Berkeley, 1978: November).
1978 Individualism in Meiji Japan: The Quest for Success and the Discovery of Self (Stanford-Berkeley Joint Language and Area Center: Berkeley, 1978: March).
1976 Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and Confucian Victorian (Program for the Study of East Asian Culture, UCD: Davis, 1976: April).
* "Militarism and the Middle Classes in Early Shôwa Japan: Plutocrats versus Technocrats," a study of the 1929 depression in Japan, its effects on the "middle classes," and the relation of their discontent to the rise of militarism and fascism.
* "The Impact of Demographic Change on Japanese Universities," a study of how the decline in the number of 18-year olds is changing the environment for Japanese universities in the public and private sectors.
* "Quality Assessment in Higher Education in the US, the UK, and Japan," a study of recent trends and fads in ranking universities and their programmes.
* "A Sourcebook in Prewar Japanese Social and Economic History," a computer collated and typeset selection of newspaper and magazine articles taken from English language newspapers published in prewar Japan.
* "Using the Internet for Teaching About Japan in Japan."
1995 Economic Social Science Research Council. 1995.07-1997.03. Maintenance and expenses for project "Technologists and Technology Transfer in Pacific Asian Economic Development."
1994 Japan Foundation Endowment Committee. 1994.04-1994.05. Travel grant for preliminary research on technologists and technology transfer in Japanese economic development.
1984 Fulbright Research Fellowship. 1984.10 - 1985.6. Supplemented by a Social Science Research Council Grant for 1984.9 - 1985.7.
1984 Japan Foundation Research Fellowship. 1984.10 - 1985.6. Declined in favour of Fulbright/SSRC grants (above).
1983 Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University. 1983.6. [received but not accepted].
1981 National Endowment for the Humanities. 1981.8 - 1982.7.
1981 Social Science Research Council. 1981.8 - 1982.7.
1999-2017 Sociology Faculty, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan. Professor.
1997-1999 Sociology Department, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. Visiting Professor.
1993-2000 Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England. Reader.
1992-1993 Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England. Senior Lecturer.
1990-1991 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, England. Lecturer (part time).
1989-1991 Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England. Visiting Senior Lecturer.
1989-1991 History Department, University of California, Davis. Professor.
1981-1989 History Department, University of California, Davis. Associate Professor.
1977-1981 History Department, University of California, Davis. Assistant Professor.
1975-1977 History Department, Cornell University. Assistant Professor.
1971-1975 Upper Great Lakes Regional Planning Commission; Engineering Experimental Station; Center for Demography and Ecology; Institute for Poverty Research; Economics Department -- University of Wisconsin, Madison. Research assistant (computer programmer).
1967-1971 Recording and studio engineer for the Wisconsin State Broadcasting Service and WHA ("The Oldest Station in the Nation") specializing in on-location broadcast and recording of chamber music performances.
1964-1967 Classical music announcer and chief engineer for WMFM, Madison, Wisconsin.
1963-1964 Announcer and assistant chief engineer for WAJP, Joliet, Illinois.
1961-1964 Electrician for Kinmonth and Leach, Inc.
PhD Modern Japanese History. December, 1974. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
MA Modern Chinese History. December, 1971. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
BBA Bank Management. September, 1968. School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
BA Economics (Finance). June, 1968. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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