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Marnie S. Anderson is an associate professor of history at Smith College. She has recently published "Critiquing Concubinage: Sumiya Koume (1850–1920) and Changing Gender Roles in Modern Japan," Japanese Studies (2017). Her most recent research is on gender and activist networks in late nineteenth-century Japan.

Celeste L. Arrington is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Her most recent publications include "Hiding in Plain Sight: Pseudonymity and Participation in Legal Mobilization," Comparative Political Studies (2018), and Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell, 2016).

Antony Best is an associate professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is coeditor of British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1850–1990: Aspects of the Evolution of British Foreign Policy (Renaissance Books, 2018) and editor of Britain's Retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905–80 (Routledge, 2017).

Kendall H. Brown is a professor of Asian art history at California State University, Long Beach. His most recent publications include Visionary Landscapes: Japanese Garden Design in North America: The Work of Five Contemporary Masters (Tuttle, 2017), and his current research is on Japanese sheet music cover design 1905–50.

Ken Coates is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. He is coauthor of The Global Digital Economy: A Comparative Policy Analysis (Cambria, 2015) and is doing research on rural Japan and the "new economy."

Bruce Coats is a professor of art history and humanities and holds the Suzanne Ely Muchnic and Paul D. Muchnic Endowed Professorship at Scripps College. He is coauthor of Genji's World in Japanese Woodblock Prints (Hotei, 2012), and his research is on Japanese paintings and prints in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Michael P. Cronin is an associate professor at the College of William and Mary. He is author of Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary (Harvard Asia Center, 2017) and has also published The Maids (New Directions, 2017), a translation of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Daidokoro taikei. His current research is on links between the Hanshin region and the island of Jeju.

Tracy Dahlby is the Frank A. Bennack, Jr. Chair in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent's Notebook (Texas, 2014) and is currently collaborating on the production of a documentary film entitled The Symphony of Frank.

Sarah Frederick is an associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University. Her recent publications include Yellow Rose (Expanded Editions, 2016), a translation of Yoshiya Nobuko's story with a critical introduction. Her current research project is a book-length study of Yoshiya Nobuko.

Nana Okura Gagné is an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is author of "Feeling Like a 'Man': Managing Gender, Sexuality, and Corporate Life in After-Hours Tokyo," in Zheng, ed., Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia (Hawai'i, 2017), and "'Correcting Capitalism': Changing Metrics and Meanings of Work among Japanese Employees," Journal of Contemporary Asia (2018).

David J. Gundry is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku (Brill, 2017) and "Hierarchy, Hubris, and Parody in Ihara Saikaku's Kōshoku ichida otoko," Journal of Japanese Studies (2017). His current projects include an essay on sexuality in Ihara Saikaku's fiction, a book on Genroku literature, and a translation of Saikaku's Budō denraiki.

Linus Hagström is a professor of political science at the Swedish Defence University. He is coauthor of "Sanctions Reconsidered: The Path Forward with North Korea," Washington Quarterly (2016), and "War Is Peace: The Rearticulation of 'Peace' in Japan's China Discourse," Review of International Studies (2016). He leads a research project at the Swedish...

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