CURRICULUM VITAE

February 1, 2001

James L. Huffman Home phone: 937-399-9684

1911 St. Paris Pike Office: 937-327-7845

Springfield, Ohio 45504 e-mail: jhuffman@wittenberg.edu

FAX: 937-327-6340

Personal Born, Plymouth, Indiana, October 17, 1941

Two children (James, Kristen Huffman-Gottschling)

Education Ph.D., History (modern Japan), University of

Michigan, 1972

Language Study, Interuniversity Center, Tokyo,

1969-70

M.A., Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1967

Graduate Study, journalism-international

relations, University of Minnesota, 1965-66

M.S.J., Journalism, Northwestern University, 1964

A.B., Indiana Wesleyan University, 1963

Employment H. Orth Hirt Professor of History, Wittenberg

University, 1999-

Professor, 1987-99

Associate Professor, 1980-87

Assistant Professor, 1977-80

Chair, Department of History, 1992-94 (acting chair, fall 2001)

Director, Common Learning, 1991-93

Assistant Professor of History-Journalism; Assistant Dean of Students, Indiana Wesleyan

University, 1975-77

Assistant Professor, History, University of

Nebraska-Lincoln, 1972-75

Reporter, Minneapolis Tribune, 1964-66

Publications: Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji

Books Japan. University of Hawai'i Press, 1987 (Choice

AAcademic Outstanding Books, 1998)

Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi

Gen'ichirÇ, University of Hawaii Press, 1980

Modern Japan: A History in Documents. Oxford University

Press, forthcoming

Publications: Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture

Edited Books and Nationalism. Garland Publishing, 1997

Publications: With Judith C. Huffman, The Cat that Lived A

Translated Million Times. University of Hawaii, 1998

Books With Judith C. Huffman, Buying Mittens. University

Of Hawaii, 1999

Publications: “Edward H. House: Questions of Meaning and Influence,”

Academic Japan Forum, XIII-1 (2001), pp. 15-25

Articles “Challenges for Democracy in Japan: Response,”

Challenges for Japan: Democracy, Business and

Aging. International House of Japan and Ryãmonsha,2001, pp. 89-91

“Nationalism and the Taming of Japan’s Early Twentieth

Century Press,” in Louis Perez, ed., Mutsu

Munemitsu and Identity Formation of the Individual

and the State in Modern Japan. Edwin Mellen Press,

2001, pp. 236-65.

“That ‘Naughty Yankee Boy,’ Edward H. House and Meiji Japan’s Struggle for Equality,” Nanzan Review of American Studies, XXII (2000), pp. 39-54.

“Viewpoints: Getting it Off Your Chest,” Asian

Studies Newsletter, Annual Meeting Issue, 1998,

p. 9

"Commercialization and the Changing World of the

Mid-Meiji Press," in New Directions in the

Study of Meiji Japan. Helen Hardacre, ed.

Brill, 1997, pp. 562-580

"Age of the Samurai," "Modern Japan," in Grant

Goodman, ed., Asian History: Selected Course Outlines. New York: Markus Weiner,

1993, p. 121-27, 135-37

"Impact of the Korean War on the Japanese

Economy: Discussion," The Occupation of Japan

--Impact of the Korean War. Norfolk, Va.:

MacArthur Foundation, 1990, pp. 143-48

"Japan's First Newspaper Law: The Emergence of the

Press as an Independent Voice," American ASIAN REVIEW, Winter 1989, pp. 29-46

"Edward Howard House: In the Service of Meiji

Japan," Pacific Historical Review, May, 1987,

pp. 231-58

"Freedom and the Press in Meiji-TaishÇ Japan,"

Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan,

Third Series, 1984, pp. 137-71; reprinted in

Peter Kornicki, ed. Routledge Library of Modern

Japan, Vol. III. Routledge, 1999, pp. 284-307

"Japanese Values: A Question for Those Who Know

Better Than I," Japan Christian Quarterly,

Fall, 1984, pp. 200-05

"Managing the News: Fukuchi Gen'ichirÇ Attempts to

Balance Two Worlds," in Hilary Conroy, et al,

eds., Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era. Toronto: Associated University Press, 1984, pp. 50-74

"The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological?" in Harry Wray, Hilary Conroy, eds., Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History. University of Hawaii Press, 1983, pp. 98-103. Also: "Meiji 1-10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan," in same volume, pp. 18-25.

"Nationalism in Japan," in G. Chan, ed., Nationalism in East Asia: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland

Publishing, 1981, pp.65-92

"The Meiji Roots and Contemporary Practice of the

Japanese Press," Japan Interpreter, Spring 1977, pp. 448-66.

"Contemporary Idioms: Kinmyaku-Jinmyaku," Japan Interpreter, Spring 1976

Selected "Impressions of Vietnam," Congressional Record,

Publications: May 21, 1992, pp. 7244-45

Popular "A Disturbing Journalistic Trend," Newsweek

Articles International, September 24, 1984, p. 6

"Patriotism Descending Into Chauvinism," New York

Times, August 31, 1984

"Japan Studies Movement Quietly Sweeps Across

Midwest," Japan Times, January 29, 1984.

"Modernization of Japan," TV script for "Japan: The Living Tradition," University of Mid-

America, 1979; also 16 newspaper articles

to accompany the adult education series

Selected Henning, Joseph. Outposts of Civilization, American

Recent Historical Review (forthcoming 2001)

Reviews: Dickerson, F.R. War and National Reinvention: Japan in

the Great War, Monumenta Nipponica, Summer 2000,

pp. 291-93.

Media Production Group, Makiko’s New World, Journal of

Asian Studies, May 2000, pp. 491-92.

deLange, William. A History of Japanese Journalism,

Pacific Affairs, Spring 1999, pp. 102-04

Garon, Sheldon, Molding Japanese Minds, in The

Historian, Spring 1998, pp. 652-53

Kosaku Yoshino, Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, in Canadian Review of

Studies in Nationalism, 1996

Hoston, Germaine. The State, Identity, and the

National Questionin China and Japan, in The Historian, Winter 1996

Reed, Stephen, Making Common Sense of Japan, in

Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter 1995

Warren, James, Ah-Ku and Karayuki-San, and Ross,

James, Escape to Shanghai, review essay, in

The Historian, Autumn 1994

Notehelfer, F.G., ed., Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, in

Monumenta Nipponica, Winter 1993

Major Grants: Japan Foundation: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, National Institute for Multimedia Education, 1994-95

Fulbright-Hays: visiting researcher, University

of Tokyo, 1983-84

National Endowment for the Humanities, summer

seminar, University of Chicago, 1977

Fulbright-Hays: senior translator, The Japan

Interpreter, 1974-75

Fulbright-Hays, dissertation research, Tokyo,

1970-71

Professional Invited participant, Shibusawa Conference on Japan,

Activities: University of Missouri-St. Louis, Oct. 7-9, 2000

North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library

Resources (Japan Foundation, ACC, liaison, 2001- Visiting Scholar, Japan Center for Michigan

Universities, Hikone, Japan, 1999

American Advisory Committee, Japan Foundation, 1995-Chair, Editorial Board, Association for Asian

Studies, 1998-

Lutheran Academy of Scholars, Harvard University, June

1999 (additional sessions, November 1999, August

2000)

Program Chair, Association for Asian Studies (Washington, D.C.), 1997-98; vice chair

(Chicago), 1996-97

Editor, “Viewpoints,” Asian Studies Newsletter, 1998-

Japan Review Panel, Asian Educational Media Service, 1998-

Board of Directors, Association for Asian Studies,

1997-98

Executive Committee, Midwest Conference on Asian

Affairs, 1992-97

Distinguished Teaching Award, Ohio Academy of

History, 1992

East Asia book review editor, The Historian,

1992-97

Consultant on Japanese studies curriculum,

Ursinus College, 1988-90

Manuscript Evaluator: University of Hawaii Press,

United Nations University Press, University

of Washington Press, University of Michigan

Press, Westview Press, Sophia University

Press, Kent State University Press, Pacific

Historical Review, U.S.-Japan Women=s Journal,

Bedford St. Martins Press

Evaluator for research and institutional grants:

NEH (1996, 1994, 1990), Fulbright-Hays (1989, 1987), Japan Foundation (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)

Coordinator, Ph.D. Kenkyãkai, Tokyo, 1983-84

Guest, dinner discussion for 10 American scholars

hosted by Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro,

Tokyo, August 4, 1983

Chair, Midwest Japan Seminar, 1978-81

Member: Medeiya Shi Kenkyãkai (Tokyo), Association

for Asian Studies, Midwest Conference on

Asian Affairs, Ohio Academy of History,

Midwest Japan Seminar

Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo (1983-84, 1994-

95); National Institute for Multimedia Education, Chiba, Japan, 1994-95)

Wittenberg Distinguished Teaching Award, 1991

Awards and Provost Search Committee (chair), 2001-02

Committees: Wray Chair Selection Committee (chair), 2000

International Education Committee, 2000-

Future Directions Task Force (chair), 1996-97

Educational Policies Committee (chair), 1995-98

Board of Academic Standards (chair), 1990-93

Institutional Requirements Committee, 1992-93

Faculty Executive Board, 1991-94

Credit System Committee (to revise university

course credit system; chair), 1987

Hearing Board on Tenure and Academic Freedom

(chair), 1987-90

Faculty Development Organization, 1979-82,

1986-89 (president)

Executive Committee, AAUP (president), 1986-87

Commission on Academic Climate, 1985-86

Faculty Personnel Board, 1981-83

Outstanding Younger Faculty Teaching Award, 1980

Other: Board of Directors, Clark County Historical Society, 2001-

Springfield Peace Center Board (secretary), 1996-

Neighborhood Church Clinic Board (administers local WIC program) (president), 1986-93

Amnesty International (local founder, 1985)

First Baptist Church (numerous responsibilities)