Peter Duus

Peter Duus (December 27, 1933 – November 5, 2022) was an American Japanologist, historian, and translator. He was emeritus professor of history at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, as well as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2000–2001.

He received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government in 2012.

Selected bibliography

Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan (Harvard University Press, 1968). Feudalism in Japan (Knopf, 1969). The Rise of Modern Japan (Houghton Mifflin, 1976). The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (University of California Press, 1995). Modern Japan (Houghton Mifflin, 1993, 2nd ed., 1998). The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Books, 1997).

He was the editor of The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6 (1988).

He also translated a couple of books by his writer wife, Masayo Umezawa Duus (ドウス 昌代, née 梅沢).

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1933 births

2022 deaths

People from Wilmington, Delaware

Historians from Delaware

American Japanologists

Stanford University faculty

Washington University in St. Louis faculty

Claremont Graduate University faculty

Harvard University faculty

20th-century American historians

21st-century American historians

20th-century American translators

21st-century American translators

University of Michigan alumni

Harvard University alumni

Japanese–English translators

Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun