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Jonathan E. Abel is an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. He has recently published “Freedom of Expression and Cultural Production in the Age of Vanishing Privacy,” in McClellen and Moore, eds., The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2016). He is researching mimesis in the history of Japanese new media.
J. Samuel Barkin is a professor of global governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is author of Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability (MIT, 2013).
James R. Bartholomew is a professor of history emeritus in the Department of History at the Ohio State University. He is author of “Japan vs. Its Environment/Tokyo Toxins,” Times Literary Supplement (December 3, 2014), and is doing research on Japanese candidates for the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, chemistry, and physics, 1901–50.
Robert Borgen is professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. His recent publications include “Sugawara no Michizane, a Heian Literatus and Statesman,” in Shirane, Suzuki, and Lurie, eds., Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (Cambridge, 2016). He is currently doing research on representations of the Wutai Mountains in classical Japanese literature.
Steven Bryan is an attorney in Tokyo and author of “Interwar Japan, Institutional Change, and the Choice of Austerity,” Asiatische Studien (2015), and The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire (Columbia, 2010). He is currently doing research on the comparative economic history of the post–World War I and post-1970s eras.
Susan L. Burns is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Her publications include “A Village Doctor and the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders (Shanghan lun): Medical Theory/ Medical Practice in Late Tokugawa Japan,” in Elman, ed., Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses (Brill, 2015), and “The Politics of Philology in Japan: Ancient Texts, Language, and Japanese Identity,” in Pollock, Elman, and Chang, eds., World Philology (Harvard, 2015). [End Page viii]
Nathen Clerici is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at State University of New York New Paltz. His 2013 dissertation at the University of British Columbia was titled “Dreams from Below: Yumeno Kyūsaku and Subculture Literature in Japan.” His research focuses on Japanese subculture, Yumeno Kyūsaku, and Osaki Midori.
Thomas D. Conlan is a professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He is author of From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan (Oxford, 2011) and “The Failed Attempt to Move the Emperor to Yamaguchi and the Fall of the Ōuchi,” Japanese Studies (2015). He is currently researching trade and warfare, religion and politics in Japan, 1300–1600.
Annika A. Culver is an associate professor of East Asian history at Florida State University. She is author of Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (British Columbia, 2013) and “Shiseidō’s ‘Empire of Beauty’: Marketing Japanese Modernity in Northeast Asia, 1932–1945,” Shashi: The Journal of Japanese Business and Company History (2013). Some of her current research explores the imonbukuro (troop care packages) phenomenon during wartime, 1931–45.
Jon Davidann is a professor of history at Hawai’i Pacific University. He is author of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History (Pearson, 2013) and is working on a new book project titled “Liberation and Power: American and East Asian Concepts of Modernity in the Twentieth Century.”
Petrice R. Flowers is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She has most recently published “International Human Rights Norms in Japan,” Human Rights Quarterly (2016), and she is currently writing a book on the norms of protection and refugee advocacy in Asia.
Karl Friday is a professor of premodern Japanese history at Saitama University. His recent publications include “War and Military Philosophy in Traditional Japan,” in Coetzee and Eysurlid, eds., Philosophers of War (Praeger, 2013), and Japan Emerging: Premodern...
