Herbert P. Bix
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican historian, sociologist of Japan, Far East
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Herbert P. Bix is an American historian known for his scholarship and teaching on modern Japanese history and imperialism.
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Joseph FrankAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyCarl Emil SchorskeAlso won Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Jonathan WeinerAlso won Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionLeon EdelAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
Bert HölldoblerAlso won Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Tim JealAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyAbout this person
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.
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United StatesCategory
Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1938 · age 88
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7 languages
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