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Contributors Michihiro Ama is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. He has published several articles on Shin Buddhism. His forthcoming book, Immigrants to the Pure Land: Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism in the Formation of Two Nations States, 1898–1941, will be published by the University of Hawai‘i Press in 2011. Noriko Asato is an associate professor of library and information science at the University of Hawai‘i, Manao. She has published a number of journal articles on Japanese language schools. She is also the author of Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919–1927. Masako Iino is the president of and a professor in the English department at Tsuda College in Tokyo. She is the author of a number of publications in Japanese including A History of Japanese Canadians (awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Publication) and Another History of US-Japan Relations. She is coauthor of Ethnic America (with Norio Akashi) and coeditor of a number of volumes. She has served as the president of the Japanese Association for Canadian Studies and been on the board of the Japanese Association for American Studies. In 1997, she received the Governor General’s Award for Canadian Studies. Tomoe Moriya is a professor at Hannan University in Osaka, Japan. Her recent publications include Yemyo Imamura: Pioneer American Buddhist and America Bukkyō no tanjō: 20 seiki shotō ni okeru Nikkei shūkyō no bunka hen’yō. She has published numerous articles on both Japanese and Japanese American Buddhism in English and Japanese. 184 Contributors Lori Pierce is an associate professor of American studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She teaches courses on race and American culture, ethnic studies, and Asian American history, including the history of Buddhism in the United States. She is the recipient of a 2009 NEH Summer Fellowship on American immigration and is a 2009–2010 Teaching Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Cristina Rocha teaches at the School of Humanities and Languages, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her writings include Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity; “The Brazilian Imaginaire of Zen,” in R. Pereira and H. Matsuoka (eds.), Japanese Religions in and Beyond the Japanese Diaspora; “All the Roads Come from Zen: Busshinji as a Reference to Buddhism in Brazil,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies; and the forthcoming Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change (with Michelle Barker). Keiko Wells is a professor of American literature and American studies at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan). She is the author of Black Spirituals: How It Has Survived Through the Centuries and The American Character in Folksong Lyrics: The Hens That Lay Soft-Boiled Eggs, and the translator of The Book of Werewolves written by Sabine Baring-Gould. She has also published numerous articles on black spirituals and Shin Buddhist song lyrics as well as other folksongs and folktales. Duncan Ryûken Williams is the Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Buddhism and chair of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He works primarily on Japanese Buddhist history, Buddhism and environmentalism, and American Buddhism. He is the author of The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan, translator of four Japanese books, and editor of three volumes including American Buddhism and Buddhism and Ecology. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Camp Dharma: Japanese-American Buddhism and the World War Two Incarceration Experience. Akihiro Yamakura is a professor of American history at Tenri University , Japan. He is the chief editor of two books and the author of over two dozen articles on Japanese American history, law, and religion, including a series of articles on Tenrikyo in the Americas. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Americas Studies, a Japanese journal on transnational perspectives on studies of the Americas. ...