He earned his BA in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990, Master of Pacific International Affairs from the University of California at San Diego in 1994, and Ph.D. in East Asian history from the University of Washington in 2001.
He studied at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama 1992 -1993, was a Fulbright Fellow at Rikkyo University in Tokyo 1998-1999, and held a Japan Foundation Fellowship in 2008.
Select Publications
“Shibusawa
Eiichi, Dai Ichi Bank, and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism,
1860-1930,” Shashi: the Journal of Japanese Business and Company
History, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, Winter 2014.
“Shibusawa Eiichi and the Merger of Confucianism and Capitalism in
Modern Japan,” in Education about Asia, Ann Arbor, MI:
Association for Asian Studies, Winter 2014.
Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and
Capitalism, 1830-1885, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
