# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-p-bix
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:39.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-p-bix"
name: "Herbert P. Bix"
slug: "herbert-p-bix"
description: "Herbert P. Bix is an American historian known for his scholarship and teaching on modern Japanese history and imperialism. His book Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, a biography of the Japanese Emperor, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2001, and was praised for revisionist arguments over the emperor's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War."
tagline: "American historian, sociologist of Japan, Far East"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.358605333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ハーバート・ビックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "هربرت بى بيكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_P._Bix"
    title: "Herbert P. Bix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "هربرت بیکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_P._Bix"
    title: "Herbert P. Bix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_P._Bix"
    title: "Herbert P. Bix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_P._Bix"
    title: "Herbert P. Bix"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4202056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump