Edwin O. Reischauer (1910–1990)

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1. Edwin O. Reischauer

   Author of Japan: The Story of A Nation, Japan, past and present, My Life Between Japan and America

2. John King Fairbank

   Author of China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition, The United States and China, China: Tradition and Transformation

3. Jonathan D. Spence

   Author of The Search for Modern China, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, The Death of Woman Wang

4. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, Practicing History: Selected Essays

5. Oliver Statler

   Author of Japanese Inn, Japanese Pilgrimage, Shimoda Story

6. Robert C. Christopher

   Author of Japanese Mind

7. Alan Booth

   Author of The Roads to Sata, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan (Kodansha Globe)

8. William Theodore De Bary

   Author of Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2

9. Ruth Benedict

   Author of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

10. Richard Storry

    Author of A History of Modern Japan

11. Donald Keene

    Author of Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day

12. Mikiso Hane

    Author of Modern Japan: A Historical Survey, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan

13. George Sansom

    Author of A History of Japan to 1334, Japan: A Short Cultural History

14. John W. Dower

    Author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, War Without Mercy

15. Edgar Snow

    Author of Red Star Over China, The Long Revolution

16. Fosco Maraini

    Author of Meeting with Japan

17. Edgar Allan Poe

    Author of Histoires extraordinaires, Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires, Histoires grotesques et sérieuses

18. Chie Nakane

    Author of Japanese Society (Center for Japanese and Korean Studies)

19. Joy Hendry

    Author of Understanding Japanese Society (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series)

20. Marius B. Jansen

    Author of The Making of Modern Japan