'''Herbert P. Bix''' is the author of
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan.
Bix got his Ph.D. in
history and Far Eastern language from
Harvard University. For several decades, he has written about
modern and
contemporary Japanese history in the
United States and
Japan.
He has taught at a lot of universities and is a professor of
history and
sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He wrote "
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan", which won the
Pulitzer Prize in 2001.