Pyle is Founding President of The
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), a nonpartisan, nonprofit
think tank, and serves on the organization's Board of Directors. In 2006, NBR created The Kenneth B. and Anne H.H. Pyle Center For Northeast Asian Studies, a research center focused on Northeast Asian political and security issues.[6]
Selected works
Books
Japan in the American Century (Belknap Press, 2018)[7]
International Order and the Rise of Asia: History and Theory, in Strategic Asia 2011-12: Asia Responds to Its Rising Powers - China and India,
Ashley J. Tellis, Travis Tanner, and Jessica Keough editors (
National Bureau of Asian Research, 2011)[8]
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (Public Affairs Books, 2007)[9]
The Making of Modern Japan (D.C. Heath, second edition 1996)
The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era (AEI Press, second edition 1996), Japanese edition (1995), Chinese edition (1997)
The New Generation in Meiji Japan: Problems of Cultural Identity (Stanford University Press, 1969)
Journals
Kenneth B. Pyle and Eric Heginbotham,
Japan, Strategic Asia 2001-02: Power and Purpose (
NBR, September 2001)