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291 Contributors Barbara J. Brooks (1953–2013) was an associate professor of East Asian history at the City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports and War in China, 1895–1938 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000). She is also the author of many articles on gender, marginality, and the international dimensions of the Japanese Empire in China and Northeast Asia. Daniel Botsman is a professor of history at Yale University. His publications include a translation of the memoirs of a prominent postwar foreign minister , Okita Saburo: A Life in Economic Diplomacy (Australia-Japan Research Center, 1993), and a study of the history of punishment from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (Prince ton University Press, 2005), also available in Japanese as Chi nurareta jihi, muchi utsu teikoku (Intershift, 2009). His current research examines the impact that Western ideas about slavery and emancipation had on Japanese society in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the experiences of Japan’s outcaste communities. Susan L. Burns is an associate professor of Japanese history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Duke University Press, 2003). Her recent work on gender history includes “Local Courts, National Laws, and the Problem of Patriarchy in Modern Japan,” in Interdisciplinary Studies on the Taiwan Colonial Court Records Archives, ed. Wang Taisheng (Angles Publishing , 2009), and “Marketing ‘Women’s Medicines’: Gender, OTC Herbal Medicines, and Medical Culture in Modern Japan,” Asian Medicine 5, no. 1 (2009): 146–172. Chen Chao-ju is an associate professor of law at National Taiwan University College of Law. Her recent publications include “Gendered Borders—The Historical Formation of Women’s Nationality under Law in Taiwan,” positions : east asia cultures critique 17, no. 2 (2009): 289–314, and “Bargaining FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY 292 Contributors with Patriarchy: Daughter’s Right of Inheritance in Practice,” National Taiwan University Law Journal 38, no. 4 (2009): 133–228 (in Chinese). She is actively involved in human rights NGOs, and is now the president of the Awakening Foundation, a major feminist NGO in Taiwan. Darryl Flaherty is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware. His publications include “Democratization, 1919, and Lawyer Advocacy for a Japanese Jury,” Journal of Japanese Studies 37, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 257–287, and a forthcoming book on Japan’s nineteenth-century legal transition. His research interests include questions of law and social change in Japan, U.S. military bases in East Asia, and how public spaces express ideology. Harald Fuess is a professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University and a past president of the European Association of Japanese Studies. He authored Divorce in Japan: Gender, Family, and the State (Stanford University Press, 2004) and edited Japanese Imperialism and Its Postwar Legacy (Iudicium, 1998). His Englishlanguage publications on gender issues in Japanese history include “Men in the Women’s Kingdom: Fatherhood in Taishō Japan,” in Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan 1600–1950, ed. Gail Lee Bernstein, Andrew Gordon, and Kate Nakai (Harvard University Press, 2005), and “A Golden Age of Fatherhood? Parent-Child Relations in Japanese Historiography,” Monumenta Nipponica 52, no. 3 (1997): 381–397. He is currently working on transnationality and extraterritoriality in the long nineteenth century as part of a larger collaborative project on maritime history. Sally A. Hastings is an associate professor of history at Purdue University and editor of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal. Her publications include Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905–1937 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), and several essays on the history of Japanese women, most recently “Empress Nagako and the Family State,” in Handbook of the Emperors of Modern Japan, ed. Ben-Ami Shillony (Brill, 2008), and “Assassins, Madonnas, and Career Women: Reflections on Six Decades of Women’s Suffrage in Japan,” Asian Cultural Studies no. 35 (2009): 229–239. Her current research project is on gender in Japanese politics during the first decade of women’s suffrage in Japan, 1946–1956. Douglas Howland is the David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002), and Personal Liberty and Public...