Notes on Contributors
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Helen J. Baroni is an associate professor in and chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. She has recently published Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of the Ōbaku Zen Master Tetsugen Dōkō (SUNY, 2006) and is currently working on a research project titled "Love, Roshi, the Correspondence between Robert Aitken and His Distant Correspondents."
Bruce L. Batten is a professor of Japanese history and vice-president for international relations at J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo. He is author of Gateway to Japan (Hawai'i, 2006) and To the Ends of Japan (Hawai'i, 2003). His latest research is on climate change in Japanese history and prehistory.
Andrew Bernstein is an associate professor in the Department of History at Lewis and Clark College. He is author of Modern Passages: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan (Hawai'i, 2006) and is working on a comprehensive "biography" of Mt. Fuji tentatively called "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making."
Thomas W. Burkman is a research professor of Asian studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He is author of Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938 (Hawai'i, 2008) and is doing research on new approaches to reconciliation among Japan, China, and Korea.
Lonny E. Carlile is an associate professor at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is author of Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement (Hawai'i, 2005) and is currently doing research on postindustrial policymaking in Japan.
Stephen G. Covell is the Mary Meader (Associate) Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. His recent publications include "Funerals, Posthumous Names and the Image of Buddhism in Japan Today," in Walters and Stone, eds., Death Rituals and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism (Hawai'i, 2008), and Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation (Hawai'i, 2005). His research is on the teachings of contemporary temple Buddhism. [End Page v]
Jennifer Cullen is an independent scholar in Needham, Massachusetts. Her research is on representations of virginity in modern Japanese literature.
Hugo Dobson is a professor at the University of Sheffield. His publications include The Group of 7/8 (Routledge, 2007) and Japan and the G7/8 (Routledge, 2004). His research is on Japan's international relations, the G8/G20, and the role of images in international relations.
William J. Farge, S.J., is an associate professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is author of The Japanese Translations of the Jesuit Mission Press (Mellen, 2003) and is doing research on Baba Bunkō (1718–58).
Joseph P. Ferguson is an independent scholar in Shoreline, Washington. He is author of Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907–2007 (Routledge, 2008), and his current research focuses on Afghanistan and on U.S.-Sino cooperation in South and Central Asia.
Gerald Figal is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University. He has recently published "Between War and Tropics: Heritage Tourism in Postwar Okinawa," The Public Historian (2008), and "Bones of Contention: The Geopolitics of 'Sacred Ground' in Postwar Okinawa," Diplomatic History (2007). He is working on a book in progress titled "Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa."
David Flath is an adjunct professor of economics in the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University. The second edition of his book, The Japanese Economy, was printed in 2005 (Oxford). He is currently editor of the M. E. Sharpe journal titled The Japanese Economy.
William W. Grimes is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University. His most recent publications include Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism (Cornell, 2009). His latest research is on the political economy of East Asian economic regionalism and on the political economy of financial market reforms in East Asia.
Mary Alice Haddad is an assistant professor at Wesleyan University. She is author of "From Undemocratic to Democratic Civil Society: Japan's Volunteer Fire Departments," Journal of Asian Studies (2010), and Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2007). She is currently...
