• Pioneering work in Japanese studies in the United States and founding the field’s major academic journal, The Journal of Japanese Studies.
• Bridging area studies and international relations, history and contemporary events, and Northeast Asian affairs and United States interests in his research
• Authoring, among his many publications, The New Generation in Meiji Japan, The Making of Modern Japan, The Japanese Question, and his forthcoming volume, Japan Rising.
• Leadership on internationally prominent foundation and government agency boards and advisory panels, including the Japan Foundation, the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
• Bridging the academic and policy worlds through advising the late Senator Henry M. Jackson, Vice President Walter Mondale, and the late Senator Mike Mansfield, among others, and through Congressional testimony and policy consulting to departments of the United States Government.
• Leadership in founding and developing The National Bureau of Asian Research.
• Setting by example the highest standards of excellence, integrity, and civility for the people of the Jackson School and NBR.
• Educating several generations of students.

And Recognizing Anne:

Anne is a graduate of Skidmore College, with a master’s degree in art education from Columbia University. She studied oil painting at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts and with Hobsen Pittman of the Philadelphia Academy. In Japan, she studied printmaking with renowned print artists Sadao Watanabe and Toshi Yoshida. She was Watanabe’s only private student and owns the largest collection of his works. She has written and spoken extensively on Watanabe and the Japanese folk art movement and continues her own printmaking using Watanabe’s methods. She has lectured to various church and university groups on his life and art.