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E. Taylor Atkins is Presidential Teaching Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. Author of Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945 (California, 2010), he is now doing research on Baha’i responses to colonialism.

Michael A. Barnhart is a distinguished teaching professor at Stony Brook University. His most recent publication is “Domestic Politics, Inter-service Impasse, and Japan’s Decisions for War,” in May, Rosecrance, and Steiner, eds., History and Realism (Cambridge, 2010). He is currently working on a two-volume work tentatively titled “E Pluribus: A Political History of American Foreign Relations.”

Andrew E. Barshay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of The Gods Left First: Imperial Collapse and the Repatriation of Japanese from Northeast Asia, 1945–1956 (California, 2013).

Jeffrey P. Bayliss is an associate professor of history at Trinity College. He is author of On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013) and is now doing research on Korean athletes in Olympic and professional sports in 1930s Japan.

Thomas U. Berger is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University. He is author of War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II (Cambridge, 2012) and coeditor of Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State (Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Richard Bowring is an emeritus professor of Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500–1600 (Cambridge, 2005), and he is doing research on Tokugawa intellectual history and religion.

Alexander Bukh is a senior lecturer in the International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. His recent publications include Japan’s National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan’s “Other” (Routledge, 2010) and “Constructing Japan’s ‘Northern Territories,’” [End Page i] International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (2012). His current research is on territorial disputes and civil society.

Richard F. Calichman is a professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is author of The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai (Routledge, 2010) and Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan (Columbia, 2008), and his current research is on Abe Kōbō.

Stephen G. Covell is an associate professor at Western Michigan University. He has recently published “Money and the Temple: Land, Taxes, and the Image of Buddhism,” in Prohl and Nelson, eds., Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions (Brill, 2012) and is now doing research on Buddhist education in modern Japan.

Francesca Di Marco is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She is author of “The Discourse on Voluntary Death in Contemporary Japan: From a Private Experience to a Collective Act,” Snodi (2010); her 2010 dissertation was titled “The Discourse on Suicide in Contemporary Japan” (SOAS, University of London). She is now at work on a manuscript about diagnosing suicide in twentieth-century Japan.

Sondra Fraleigh is a professor emerita at the College at Brockport. She is author of Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy (Illinois, 2010) and coauthor of Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo (Routledge, 2006).

Sabine Frühstück is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Coeditor of Recreating Japanese Men (California, 2011), she is now working on a monograph on the twentieth-century history of militarism and childhood and also doing research for a global history essay on sexuality during World War II.

Karen M. Gerhart is a professor of Japanese art history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan (Hawai‘i, 2009) and is doing research on the funerals of the mothers of Ashikaga shoguns.

Andrew Gordon is the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History in the Department of History at Harvard University. He is author of Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan (California, 2012) and is now working on a history of Japan’s “lost decades.”

Eric C. Han is an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary. His 2009 dissertation was titled “Narrating Community in Yokohama [End Page ii] China town: 1894...

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