Peter Duus (December 27, 1933 – November 5, 2022^[1]) was an American Japanologist, historian, and translator. He was emeritus professor of history at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, as well as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2000–2001.^[2]

He received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government in 2012.^[3]

Selected bibliography

• Party Rivalry and Political Change in Taisho Japan (Harvard University Press, 1968).
• Feudalism in Japan (Knopf, 1969).
• The Rise of Modern Japan (Houghton Mifflin, 1976).
• The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (University of California Press, 1995).
• Modern Japan (Houghton Mifflin, 1993, 2nd ed., 1998).
• The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Books, 1997).

He was the editor of The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6 (1988).

He also translated a couple of books by his writer wife, Masayo Umezawa Duus (ドウス 昌代, née 梅沢).^[1]