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Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian. He wrote Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 2001.Bix was born in Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned the Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.