Notes on Contributors

Harold Bolitho is a professor of Japanese history at Harvard University. His most recent publications include Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan (Yale, 2003), and his current research is on Tokugawa samurai biographies.

Tessa Carroll is a lecturer in Japanese in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Stirling. She is author of Language Planning and Language Change in Japan (Curzon, 2001) and is doing research on keigo in Japanese as a foreign language and on Japanese language planning.

Reinhard Drifte is a professor emeritus at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and visiting research fellow of the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics. His recent book, Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 (Routledge, 2003), was published in Japanese by Minerva Shobō in 2004. His current research is on Japanese-Chinese cooperation.

Prasenjit Duara is a professor of history and East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is author of Sovereignty and Authenticity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and his current research focuses on religion and secularism in East Asia and on Hong Kong in the 1950s.

Alexis Dudden is the Mercy Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College. She is author of Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (Hawai'i, 2004) and is doing research on apology and apologism among Japan, Korea, and the United States.

Aurelia George Mulgan is an associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Her most recent work is Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005). She is now completing another book manuscript entitled "Party versus Government: How Japan's LDP Intervenes in the Policy Process."

William W. Grimes is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University. He is author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle (Cornell, 2001) and coeditor of Japan's Managed Globalization (M. E. Sharpe, 2002). His research is on Japan's role in East Asian economic regionalism.

Jeffrey E. Hanes is an associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. He is author of The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka (California, 2002) and coeditor of Image and Identity: Rethinking Japanese Cultural History (Kobe University, 2005). He is currently working on a manuscript titled "Capital of Water, Capital of Smoke: The Production and Consumption of Urban Space in Osaka."

Ulf Hannerz is a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. His publications include Cultural Complexity (Columbia, 1992) and Transnational Connections (Routledge, 1996), and his research has been especially in urban anthropology, media anthropology, and transnational cultural processes.

Keiko Hirata is an assistant professor of political science at California State University, Northridge. Author of Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo's Aid and Development Policy (Palgrave, 2002), she is currently doing research on international norm diffusion and civil society actors in the United States and Japan.

Anne E. Imamura is an adjunct professor in the Sociology Department at Georgetown University. She is author of "The Japanese Family Faces Twenty-First Century Challenges," Education about Asia (2003).

P. F. Kornicki is a professor in and chairman of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is translator of Volume 4 of The Iwakura Embassy, 1871–1873 (The Japan Documents) and compiler of Catalogue of the Early Japanese Books in the Russian State Library (Russian State Library, 2004). His current research is on women's literacy and readership, circa 1600–1800.

J. Victor Koschmann is a professor of history and Asian studies at Cornell University. Most recently, he has published "Modernization and Democratic Values: The 'Japanese Model' in the 1960s" in Engerman et al., eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (Massachusetts, 2003). His research focuses on the politics of volunteering in contemporary Japan.

J. P. Lamers is an industrial counselor with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Japan. He is author of Treatise on...