Walter E. Grunden

Professor Walter E. Grunden is a historian of modern Japan and China whose research interests include science and technology policy, military intelligence, and weapons of mass destruction. He is the author of Secret Weapons & World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science (2005), as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles on the history of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

His work has been published in Japanese, German, and Russian. He has been an invited speaker at several conferences, workshops, and seminars nationally and internationally, and he has appeared in documentaries aired on The History Channel, The Military History Channel, NHK Japan, NHK World, and CCTV China.

Grunden has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and the US Department of Education.

He was a visiting post-doctoral scholar in residence at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2001-2002 and a Fulbright Visiting Teaching Professor at the University of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea in 2020. He has been awarded the permanent status of Visiting Research Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) in Hayama, Japan where he was in residence in 2018 and 2019.