Van John Sant - The A to Z of United States-Japan Relations

John Van Sant (Ph.D., Univ. of Oregon) is associate professor of history at the University of AlabamaBirmingham (USA). His book, Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 18501880 (University of Illinois Press, 2000) is a transnational and transcultural examination of many of the first Japanese who lived in the United States. He also edited and introduced a new edition of Arinori Mori's Life and Resources in America (Lexington Books, 2004), an examination of the American political, social, and cultural landscape by Japan's first resident diplomat in Washington, D.C., and originally published in 1872.

Peter Mauch is a lecturer of international history at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. He has recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Kyoto University, and is writing a biography of Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo, entitled, Sailor Diplomat: Nomura Kichisaburo and the JapaneseAmerican War. He has published numerous articles detailing Nomura's pre-and postPacific War efforts to place JapaneseAmerican relations on a cordial footing.

Yoneyuki Sugita is associate professor of American history at Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of WisconsinMadison. He is the author of Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan, 19451952 (New York: Routledge, 2003) and Irony of Hegemony: The AsiaPacific War and US Policy toward East Asia (Kyoto: Sekai Shisosha, 1999) (in Japanese). He is also co-editor with Richard Jensen and Jon Davidann of Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century (New York: Praeger, 2003).

We wish to thank Jon Woronoff, the series editor, for asking us to undertake this dictionary, for providing guidance throughout the writing and production, and for reviewing the entire manuscript and offering valuable comments. We would also like to thank Dr. Robert Sutter for allowing us to use his Appendix B from Historical Dictionary of United StatesChina Relations. John Van Sant thanks the University of AlabamaBirmingham and his colleagues in the Department of History for their continuous support for his teaching and research. Peter Mauch dedicates this dictionary to his parents, Russell and Norma Mauch, his wife, Tomoko, and his children, Joseph and Kyoko Mauch. Yoneyuki Sugita extends his gratitude to John McGlynn and John Garside for their valuable research and editorial assistance. He would never have completed this work without the warm and supportive family environment provided by his wife, Shoko, and our three children (Gakuto, Natsuki, and Kanato). Kudos to them!