Fred Notehelfer '57               Biography

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EDUCATION:

High School The American School In Japan 1957
B.A. Harvard College, Phi Beta Kappa 1962
Ph.D. Princeton University 1968



PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD:

1967-1969 Lecturer Princeton University
1969-1971 Assistant Professor of History, UCLA
1971-1988 Associate Professor of History, UCLA
1988-- Professor of History, UCLA
1991-- Director, UCLA, Center for Japanese Studies
1979-1981 Visiting Associate professor, International Christian University Tokyo
1983 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia
1986 Visiting Professor, Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University



 

OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE:

1939-1947 Childhood in Japan
1953-1957 High School, Japan
1960-1961 Study at International Christian University, Tokyo
1964-1996 Foreign Area Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Japan
1971-1972 Fulbright Haves Research Fellowship, Visiting Professor Doshisha, University, Kyoto
1973, 1976 Summer Research in Japan
1979-1976 Director, University of California Education Abroad Tokyo Study Center, ICU, Japan
1983 Summer Research in Japan
1986-1987 Visiting Professor, Institue for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University



 

MAJOR AND/OR RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Kotoku Shusui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical (Cambridge U. Press, 1971

Kotoku Shusui: Nihon no kyushin shugisha no shozo (Tokyo: Fukumura Shuppa n, 1980

American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan (Princeton University Press, 1985

America no Samurai: Taii L.L Jiensu to Nihon (Tokyo: Hosei Daigaku  Shuppansha, 1988

Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama 18591866 (Princeton University Press, 1992

Japan Through American Eyes (Abridged Version) (Westview Press, 2001

Remarkable Journey: The Life of Rose Notehelfer (forthcoming)

Some Representative Articles

"Kotoku Shusui and Nationalism," Journal of Asian Studies Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (November, 1971)

"Leroy Lansing Janes: OutofClass Teacher and Agricultural Adviser in Kumamoto, Japan, 18711876," Sekai shi no naka  no meiji isshin (Kyoto, 1973)

"Japan's First Pollution Incident," The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. I, no. 2 (Spring 1975)

"L.L. Janes in Japan: Carrier of American Culture and Christianity," Journal of Presbyterian History (Winter, 1975)

"Nihon kindaika no ryomen  Ashio kodoku jiken," (Two Faces of Japanese Modernization  The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Problem), Gakujutsu kokusai koryu sanko shiryoshu, Meiji Daigaku, Tokyo, (January 1977)

"Amerika no wakamono  Nihon no wakamono" (American Youth - Japanese Youth), Sekai, No. 408 (November, 1979).

"Meiji Ishin no Kumamoto yogakko" (The Kumamoto School for Western Learning in the Meiji Restoration), Ningen to Bunka, Vol. 22 (1980)

"Between Traditon and Modernity: Labor and the Ashio Copper Mine," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 (Spring,1984)

"Before the Restoration: Francis Hall's Description of  Bakumatsu Japan." Zimbun: Memoirs of the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies  Kyoto University No. 21 (1986)

"Shakai kansatsusha narabi ni kirokusha to shite no seiyojin  jãkyã seiki nihon shakai no shosÇ ga mieru 'mado'."  In Tadashi Shimada (ed.), Za Yatoi: Oyatoi gaikokujin no sÇgÇ teki kenkyã (Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1987)

"Meiji In The RearView Mirror: TopDown Versus BottomUp History," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Summer 1990)

"On Idealism and Realism in the Thought of Okakura Tenshin," Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 1990)

"Visions of Early Yokohama: Francis Hall in Treaty Port Japan," Asian Art, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1990)

"A Matter of Transcendence: War Experiences and the Transformation of Japanese and American Fighter Pilots," in James W. White, Michio Umegaki and Thomas R.H. Havens (eds), The Ambivalence of Nationalism: Modern Japan Between East and West (New York: University Press of America, 1990),

"The Wild West of the Far East: Gaijin by James Clavell." New York Times, Book Review Section, Sunday, April 18, 1993, p. 13.

"An Ancient Custom: Shinjã." By Laura Joh Rowland.  New York: Random House, Inc., 1994.  New York Times, Book Review, Sunday October 9, 1994, p. 11.

“Review” Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan. By Alan Booth.  New York: Kodansha International, 1995.  New York Times Book Review Sunday, July 2, 1995, p. 17.

"Japan Since 1850." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1996.  Vol. 22, pp. 297- 311.

“Rethinking the Meiji Restoration,” The First Inamoto Commemorative Lecture, University of Southern California, 1998.

“From Grand Narrative to Yakisoba,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Fall 1998), pp. 359-73.

John Constable and the ‘Woodbridge Wits,” The Burlington Magazine, Sept. 1999, pp. 531-536.

OFFICES HELD:

 Vice Chairman, Department of History, UCLA, 197376 Member of the American Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation, 1982-85

Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship Screening Committee, Represented Asia, 1984.

CoDirector of the USCUCLA Joint Center in East Asian  Studies, 1976-79

Director of the University of California's Education Abroad Study Center in Tokyo, located at International Christian University, 19791981

 CoDirector of the USCUCLA Joint Center in East Asian Studies, 1983 to 1994.

Acting Chairman, Department of History, UCLA, Summer 1984

History Department Representative to the Legislative Assembly of the UCLA Senate, 198386

Member of the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and
Science, 198386

Member UCLA Council on International Studies and Overseas  Programs, 198386 Associate Director, International Studies and Overseas Programs, 1989

Director, Japan Research and Exchange Program, 1990-1991

Director, UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, 1991 --


MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

        American Historical Association
        Association for Asian Studies
        Japan America Society
        Southern California Japan Seminar
        International House of Japan
        Los Angeles County Museum of Art
        Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 

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