Notes on Contributors

Christina L. Ahmadjian is a professor in the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University. Her article "Safety in Numbers: Downsizing and the Deinstitutionalization of Permanent Employment in Japan" appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly (2001). Her research is on corporate governance reform in Japan.

Michael K. Bourdaghs is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of The Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism (Columbia, 2003) and is currently doing research on discourses of property ownership in modern Japanese literature and on postwar popular music in Japan.

Mary C. Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her recent works include "Trouble in Paradise: Changes in Japan's Youth Labor Market," in Nee and Swedberg, eds., The Economic Sociology of Capitalism (Princeton, 2005). She is continuing her research on the youth labor market in Japan.

Stephen Dodd is a lecturer in Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Author of Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature (Harvard University Asia Center, 2004), he is presently researching Kajii Motojirō and Japanese modernism.

Gary L. Ebersole is a professor of history and religious studies and director of the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is author of "The Poetics and Politics of Ritualized Weeping in Early and Medieval Japan," in Patton and Hawley, eds., Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (Princeton, 2005), and he is working on a comparative study of ritualized weeping.

H. Richard Friman is the Eliot Fitch Chair for International Studies and a professor of political science at Marquette University. His recent publications include "Forging the Vacancy Chain: Law Enforcement Efforts and Mobility in Criminal Economies," Crime, Law and Social Change (2004). He is currently working on two book projects, the first exploring the politicization of immigrant crime in advanced industrial countries, and the second exploring the intersection of the licit and illicit global economies.

Koichi Hamada is a professor of economics at Yale University. He recently coedited Dreams and Dilemmas: Economic Friction and Dispute Resolution in the Asia-Pacific (Seikei University Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, 2000) and he is now doing research on the Japanese economy and on the incentive structure in the World Trade Organization.

James L. Huffman is a professor of history at Wittenberg University. Author of A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), he is currently working on a people's history of modern Japan.

William Johnston is a professor of history at Wesleyan University. Author of Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan (Columbia, 2004), he is working on a historiography of Amino Yoshihiko and on warfare in sixteenth-century Japan.

Richard Katz is editor of The Oriental Economist Report. Author of Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (M. E. Sharpe, 2003), he is doing research on Japan's economic structure and reform process.

Sari Kawana is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Delaware. Her 2003 dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania was on "Undercover Agents of Modernity: Sleuthing City, Colony, and Body in Japanese Detective Fiction." She is author of "The Price of Pulp: Women, Detective Fiction, and the Profession of Writing in Inter-war Japan," Japan Forum (2004). Her research is on pulp fiction, horror cinema, and the history of the book and publishing.

William W. Kelly is a professor of anthropology at Yale University. Most recently, he is editor of Fanning the Flames: Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan (SUNY, 2004).

Michael Laffan is a research fellow in the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden. He is author of Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and "An Indonesian Community in Cairo," Indonesia (2004). His research is on Sufism and Islamic law in Indonesia and on interactions between the Middle East and Southeast...