Professor William M. Tsutsui is chair of the Department of History and executive director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas. A specialist in the business, economic, and cultural history of twentieth-century Japan, he holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton Universities. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (Routledge, 1988); Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (Princeton University Press, 1998); and Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (Palgrave, 2004). He is the editor of Banking in Japan (Routledge, 1999); A Companion to Japanese History (Blackwell, 2006); and (with Michiko Ito) In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (Palgrave, 2006). He received the 1997 Newcomen Society Award for Excellence in Business History Research and Writing, the 2000 John Whitney Hall Prize (for best book on Japan or Korea published in 1998) of the Association for Asian Studies, and the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award for non-fiction. He is currently conducting research on the enviromental history of modern Japan and the globalization of Japanese popular culture since World War II. He has served as president of the Kansas State Historical Society and as program chair of the Kansas Humanities Council.