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Akira Iriye

Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Akira Iriye was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1934 and graduated from a Tokyo high school in 1953. He received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in U.S. and East Asian History from Harvard in 1961.

Prof. Iriye was an Instructor and Lecturer in history at Harvard following receipt of his Ph.D. He then taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago before accepting an appointment as Professor of History at Harvard University in 1989, where he became Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991.

Professor Iriye has written widely on American diplomatic history and Japanese-American relations. Among those works are Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911 (1972); Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (1981); Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations (in Japanese, 1991); China and Japan in the Global Setting (1992); The Globalizing of America (1993); and Cultural Internationalism and World Order (1997).

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Recommended Reading

The Global History Reader by Akira Iriye (2004).