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311 ContrIButors Daniel P. Aldrich is an associate professor of political science at Purdue University who has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo’s Law Faculty in Japan, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University’s Program on US–Japan Relations, a visiting researcher at Centre Américain, Sciences Po in Paris, France, and a visiting professor at the Tata Institute for Disaster Management in Mumbai, India. Daniel has authored two books (Site Fights, 2008; and Building Resilience, 2012), along with more than forty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, reviews, and op-eds. He is a board member of the journals Asian Politics & Policy and Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy and a Mansfield CGP fellow. Jakobina Arch is a PhD candidate in history and east Asian languages at Harvard University . She was originally trained as a biologist, with an MSc in biology studying cetacean behavior. Andrew Bernstein is an associate professor of history and east Asian studies at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics , and Social Change in Imperial Japan (2006) and is currently writing a “biography” of Mount Fuji that traces the historical development of the volcano as a site both physical and imagined. Philip C. Brown, a professor of history at Ohio State University, is a specialist in early modern and modern Japanese history. His most recent book is Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan (2011). He is currently researching changing responses to flood and landslide risk in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan. He is the author of numerous articles published in the Journal of Asian Studies, Social Science History, Journal of Japanese Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, and other venues. Timothy S. George is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, where he teaches courses on modern Japan, modern China, east Asia, and Southeast Asia. He has also taught courses at Harvard University on modern Japan, east Asian environmental history , and democracy in east Asia. His publications include Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan (2001), and he is cotranslator of Harada Masazumi ’s Minamata Disease (2004) and of Saitō Hisashi’s Niigata Minamata Disease (2009). Contributors 312 Jeffrey E. Hanes teaches modern Japanese history at the University of Oregon. He is also director of UO’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and director of its Title vI east Asia National Resource Center. He is a longtime student of Professor Miyamoto ken’ichi ’s, and he has translated several of his mentor’s seminal essays into english. David L. Howell is a professor of Japanese history at Harvard University. He is the author of Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (2005) and Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (1995), as well as numerous articles on the social and economic history of Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. His current research focuses on social disorder and the fear of foreign invasion in the early nineteenth century. Federico Marcon is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. Christine L. Marran is an associate professor of Japanese literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota. The author of various articles on the environment and humananimal relations in Japanese culture, she is currently writing a book on literary authors of environmental pollution while sailing Minnesota’s lakes. Ian Jared Miller teaches modern Japanese history at Harvard University. His first book, The Nature of the Beasts (2013), explores the strange nature and peculiar culture of the Tokyo Imperial Zoo at Ueno, east Asia’s first zoological garden. It is forthcoming from University of California Press. He is currently writing an environmental history of energy and everyday life in twentieth-century Tokyo. Ken’ichi Miyamoto is a professor emeritus of Osaka City University and Shiga University . He has published extensively on public finance and environmental economics. Recent books include On Social Overhead Capital (Shakai shihon ron), Urban Economics (Toshi keizai ron), Environmental Economics (Kankyō keizaigaku) and, in english, Asbestos Disaster : Lessons from Japan’s Experience (edited with k. Morinaga and H. Mori). Micah Muscolino is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (2009). Sara B. Pritchard is an assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University who specializes in environmental history and the history of technology. She is the author...

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