Books

• 2009 – Words in Motion co-edited with Anna Tsing. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
• 2009 – Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 2007 – Rekishi de kangaeru (Thinking with History). Tokyo: Iwanami
• 1997 – Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching co-edited with Ainslie Embree. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
• 1992 – Showa: the Japan of Hirohito. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• 1985 – Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• forthcoming – Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press.

Articles

• "Meiji and Modernity: From History to Theory,” in Intrecci Culturali ed. Rosa Caroli (Venice, 2009)
• "Ten Top Things to Know About Japan in the Early Twentieth Century," Education About Asia (Winter 2008).

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• American Philosophical Society

• 2006 – Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
• 2002 – Japan-United States Fulbright Program 50th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award