Professor Kenneth B. Pyle

University of Washington

229 Thomson

Box 353650

Seattle, Washington 98195

Tel: 543-7717

kbp@u.washington.edu

EMPLOYMENT

University of Washington:

• Director, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies 1978-88

• Professor of History and East Asian Studies 1975- present

• Chairman of Japanese and Korean Studies 1972-78, 1991-95

• Acting Director, Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies 1975

• Associate Professor of History 1969-75

• Assistant Professor of History 1965-69

Other Universities:

• Visiting Associate Professor of History, Yale University 1969-70

• Visiting Lecturer in History, Stanford University 1964-65

COURSES

• SISEA 423/HSTAS 423 History of Modern Japan
• SISEA 490F Special Topics: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• SISEA/HSTAS 241 The Emergence of Postwar Japan

EDUCATION

• Graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1954;
• A.B. 1958, (magna cum laude) History, Harvard College;
• Ph. D. 1965, Japanese History, Johns Hopkins University;
• Special work in Japanese studies: Stanford University 1960-61;
• Stanford Center for Japanese Studies in Tokyo 1961-64 (presently Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies).

AREA OF RESEARCH

Modern Japanese history

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (PublicAffairs Books, 2007);

• "Reading the New Era in Asia: The Use of History and Culture in the Making of Foreign Policy," (Asia Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 2007);

• "Nationalism in East Asia," (Asia Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2007);

• "Profound Forces in the Making of Modern Japan," (Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 2006);

• "Henry Jackson and the Jackson School of International Studies: A Personal Reflection," ( Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Winter 2005/2006);

• "Japan's Historic Change of Course," (Current History, Vol. 105, No. 692, September 2006);

• "Abe Shinzo and Japan's Change of Course," (NBR Analysis, Vol. 17, No. 4, October 2006);

• Book review: Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture in Twentieth Century Japan (University of California Press) in Journal of Japanese Studies (Summer 2006);

• "Regionalism in Asia: Past and Future," (Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 16, Number 1, 2003);

• "Japan" (co-authored with Eric Heginbotham) in Strategic Asia: Power and Purpose, 2001-2002, Richard Ellings and Aaron Friedberg, eds. (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001);

• "Japan and the Engagement of China: Challenges for U.S. Policy Coordination,", co-authored with Michael Armacost (NBR Analysis, Vol. 12, no. 5, 2001);

• "Japan and the Unification of Korea,", coauthored with Michael Armacost, in Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Ellings, eds. Korea's Future and the Great Powers (University of Washington Press, 2001);

• "Japan and the Unification of Korea: Challenges for U.S. Policy Coordination," co-authored with Michael H. Armacost (NBR Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 1999);

• "North Korea in U.S.-Japan Relations," (Occasional Papers of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Spring, 1999);

• "Prospects for U.S.-Japan Cooperation in Northeast Asia," (Asia Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1999);

• "Japan: Opportunism in the Pursuit of Power," in A Century's Journey: How the Major Powers Shaped the World, edited by Robert Pastor (New York: Basic Books, 1999);

• "Restructuring Foreign and Defence Policy: Japan," in Asia-Pacific in the New World Order, edited by Anthony McGrew and Christopher Brook (Routledge, 1998);

• "Meiji Conservatism," in Modern Japanese Thought, edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Cambridge University Press, 1998);

• "The Technology of Japanese Nationalism" and "Advantages of Followership" in Peter Kornicki, ed. Meiji Japan: Political, Economic, and Social History, 1868-1912 (Routledge, Vol. 4, 1998);

• "Japan's Immobilism," (NBR Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 4, September, 1998) ;

• Thai edition of The Japanese Question (1997);

• From APEC to Xanadu: Creating a Viable Community in the Post-Cold War Pacific, co-edited with D. C. Hellmann (M. E. Sharpe, 1997);

• "The World Historical Significance of Japan," in A Vision of a New Liberalism? Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis, edited by Kozo Yamamura (Stanford University Press, 1997);

• Old Orders and the Future of Japan and the United States in Asia" (Edwin O. Reischauer Memorial Lecture), International House of Japan Bulletin (Summer, 1997);

• The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era (AEI Press, Second edition, 1996);

• The Making of Modern Japan, new (substantially enlarged) edition (Houghton Mifflin, 1996);

• "Uncertain Future: Revitalizing the U.S.-Japan Alliance," (Harvard International Review, XVIII, No. 2, Spring 1996);

• Japan's Emerging Strategy in Asia," in Southeast Asian Security in the New Millennium, Richard J. Ellings and Sheldon Simon, eds. (M. E. Sharpe, 1996);

• Book Review: David Williams, Japan: Beyond the End of History in the Journal of Japanese Studies, Summer 1996;

• Nihon e no gimon (Simul Press. Japanese translation of The Japanese Question, 1995);

• "The Context of APEC: U.S.-Japan Relations." (NBR Analysis, VI, 8, November 1995);

• Review: Ian Nish, Japan's Struggle with Internationalism, China, Japan and the League of Nations, 1931-32 in the Journal of Japanese Studies (Summer, 1995).

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS

• Establishment of Kenneth B. and Anne H. H. Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research, 2006;
• Establishment of Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Professorship in American Foreign Policy, University of Washington, 2006;
• Mansfield Freeman Memorial Lecture, Wesleyan University, 2002;
• The Henry M. Jackson Award for Distinguished Public Service, 2000;
• Japanese Imperial Decoration: Third Order of the Rising Sun, 1999;
• Century Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund, Book Contract,1998-99;
• Edwin O. Reischauer Memorial Lecturer, Tokyo, 1997;
• Yoshida Shigeru Memorial Foundation Prize, 1991;
• SSRC-ACLS Fellowships, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1977, 1983-84;
• Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Fellowship, 1970-71;
• National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships, 1960-61, 1963-64 ;
• Ford Foundation Fellowship 1961-64;
• Walter Hines Page Fellowship in International Relations, Johns Hopkins, 1958-60;
• Ferguson History Prize (runner-up), Harvard College, 1956;
• Marshal S. Keats Prize in History, Phillips Academy, 1954.