Marius Berthus Jansen was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University

Princeton University

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He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected works

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 encompasses roughly 100+ works in 300+ publications in 12 languages and 13,900+ library holdings.

• The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (1951)
• Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (1961)
• Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (1965)
• Japan and its World: Two Centuries of Change (1975)
• Japan and China: from War to Peace, 1894-1972 (1975)
• Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji (1986)
• The Making of Modern Japan (2000)

Honors

• Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
  
  , 1979.
• Order of the Sacred Treasure
  Order of the Sacred Treasure
  The is a Japanese Order, established on January 4, 1888 by Emperor Meiji of Japan as the Order of Meiji. It is awarded in eight classes . It is generally awarded for long and/or meritorious service and considered to be the lowest of the Japanese orders of merit...
  
  , 1985.
• Japan Academy, 1999
• Person of Cultural Merit
  Person of Cultural Merit
  is an official Japanese recognition-honor which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions. This distinction is intended to play a role as a part of a system of support measures for the promotion of creative activities in Japan...
  
  , 1999.