Louis G. Perez is Emeritus Professor of History and Distinguished University Lecturer at Illinois State University, USA. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1986 and his BA and MA from California State University at Long Beach in 1975. Among his publications are such works as Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties (1999), Daily Life in Premodern Japan (2002), and Mutsu Munemitsu and Identity Formation of the Individual and the State in Modern Japan (2001). He also served as editor of ABC-CLIO's Japan at War: An Encyclopedia (2013).