I am Henry Smith, an academic historian at Columbia University in New York City, specializing in modern Japanese history.
This particular user name--like other Wikipedia user names with the "Jb05-" prefix--indicates that I am part of the WikiProject Japanese Bibliography currently being carried out by the members of a graduate seminar at Columbia. Our goal is to create a reliable body of information about resources and references about Japan, particularly about the humanities (history, literature, religion, art history, and so forth).
For more about my background and publications, see my personal web page at http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~hds2/.