Albert M. Craig is the Harvard-Yenching Research Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1959. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has studied at Strasbourg University and at Kyoto, Keio, and Tokyo universities in Japan. He is the author of "Choshu in the Meiji Restoration" (1961), "The Heritage of Chinese Civilization" (2001), and, with others, of "East Asia,"" Tradition and Transformation" (1989). He is the editor of "Japan,"" A Comparative View" (1973) and co-editor of "Personality in Japanese History"...