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Advisor Akira Iriye Received the Japan Foundation Award for2013
Akira Iriye 入江昭, Professor Emeritus ofHarvard University, was awarded the JapanFoundation Award for 2013. Commenting on theaward, Prof. Iriye said, “Exactly 60 years ago, I
visited the U.S. to study for the first time. It is mygreat honor, and I would like to express my appreciation, to receive the Japan Foundation Award on
this memorable occasion. I’ll always remember
those who have made great efforts for promoting
academic and cultural exchanges beyond borders internationally, and I willcontinue trying to do my best.”Prof. Iriye has long served as an advisory committee member of the JapanFoundation Center for Global Partnership. His contributions to JapanFoundation projects include “Symposium on the Twentieth Century” (1983),“20th Century Symposium: The End of the Century, the Future in the Past”(1993), in addition to the lectures and seminars on the history of Japan-U.S.
relations and international relations among the United States, Europe, andChina. The Japan Foundation also supported publishing and translating hisworks, in particular, publishing Partnership: The United States and Japan,1951–2001, edited by Akira Iriye and Robert Wampler (2001), and translating
into Vietnamese his Nihon no gaikō: Meiji Ishin kara gendai made 日本の外交：明治維新から現代まで (Japanese Diplomacy: From the Meiji Restoration
to the Present, 1966) and his Shin Nihon no gaikō: Chikyūka jidai no Nihonno sentaku 新日本の外交：地球化時代の日本の選択 (Japanese Diplomacy
Revisited: Japan’s Choice in the Age of Globalization, 1991).
Prof. Iriye has written widely on American diplomatic history andJapanese- American relations. Among his works are Pacific Estrangement:
Japanese and American Expansion, 1897–1911 (1972); Power and Culture:
The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 (1981); Nichi-Bei kankei gojūnen:Kawaru Amerika, kawaranu Amerika 日米関係五十年：変わるアメリカ，変わらぬアメリカ (Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations: Changes andConstants in America, 1991); China and Japan in the Global Setting (1992);
The Globalizing of America (1993); and Cultural Internationalism and World
Order (1997).
Born in 1934, Akira Iriye graduated from Seikei Senior High School andmoved to the United States in 1953 on a scholarship from the Grew Bancroft
Foundation. He graduated from Haverford College in 1957 and received a126

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Ph.D. in History from Harvard University Graduate School in 1961. After
holding positions in a number of institutions, he became Charles Warren
Professor of American History at Harvard in 1991 and Professor Emeritus in2005. He specialized in American diplomatic history, especially as relates toJapan. As a U.S.-based Japanese historian, Prof. Iriye has made significantcontributions to his field over a long period of time. In his approach heemphasizes ideological and cultural impact, and in international history headvocates that research incorporate a multinational perspective that goesbeyond the diplomatic history of one country and two-way interactions. He isrecognized as “one of the people who changed the way we view the diplomatic history of America.” Prof. Iriye became the first Japanese citizen toserve as President of the Society for Historians of American ForeignRelations and as President of the American Historical Association. He madesignificant contributions as a pioneer in Japan-U.S. interaction.
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