Michael Robert Auslin is an American

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 academic, historian, Japanologist. He was formerly an Associate Professor of at Yale University

Yale University

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; and he is now Director of Japanese Studies at the American Enterprise Institute

American Enterprise Institute

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, which is a conservative think tank

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 in Washington, DC .

Early life

Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago. He earned a master's degree from the University of Indiana at Bloomington ; and his Ph.D. was awarded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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Career

Auslin was an Assistant Professor (2000–2006) and then Associate Professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University. In addition, he was also the Founding Director of the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations (2004–2007) and a Senior Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (2006–2007) at Yale.

In 2005, he was a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Law of Kobe University

Kobe University

Shindai is one of the leading universities in Japan. It can be seen in the several rankings such as shown below.-General Rankings:The university is ranked 10th in 2010 in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by Toyo Keizai...

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He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire."

Select works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin, OCLC

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/WorldCat

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 encompasses roughly 8 works in 30+ publications in 1 language and 100+ library holdings.

• 2006 — Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
  Harvard University Press
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  . 10-ISBN 0674015215; 13-ISBN 9780674015210; OCLC 56493769
• 2007 — Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907-2007 (with Edwin O. Reischauer). New York: Japan Society. 13-ISBN 9780913304594/10-ISBN 091330459X; OCLC 85766283

Journals

• "The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents," The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999.

Honors

• Fulbright fellow
  Fulbright Program
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• Japan Foundation fellow
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• Marshall fellow
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External links

• PBS
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  : "Memoirs of a Secret Empire", 2004 film, aired May 26, 2004
• Library of Congress webcast: Highlights of Japan-US relationship with Norman Mineta
  Norman Mineta
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  , Midori Goto
  Midori Goto
  is a Japanese American violinist. She made her debut at the age of 11 in a last-minute change of programming during a concert highlighting young performers by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. When she was 21, she formed the philanthropic group Midori and Friends to help bring music to...
  
  , Naoyuki Agawa
  Naoyuki Agawa
  is a Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and author. He has been a professor of law at Keio University since 1999; and since 2009, he has served as the university's Vice President for International Collaboration and Education.-Early life:...
  
  and Michael Auslin, 2007