Notes on Contributors
Rent from DeepDyveArthur J. Alexander is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He is author of In the Shadow of the Miracle: The Japanese Economy since the end of High-Speed Growth (Lexington Books, 2002).
Paul S. Atkins is an assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Washington. He is author of Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006).
Michael A. Barnhart is a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York–Stony Brook. Author of Japan and the World since 1868 (St. Martin's, 1995), he is currently working on the political history of American diplomacy.
David T. Bialock is an associate professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is author of Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative Ritual and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike (Stanford, 2007). His most recent research is on ecology, ritual, and literature.
Robert Borgen is a professor of Japanese literature and history at the University of California, Davis. His recent publications include "Stone Bridge: A Pilgrimage Performed," Asiatische Studien (2004), and his current research is on the history of Dōmyōji.
Philip Brown is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Ohio State University. His most recent publications include "Corporate Land Tenure in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A GIS Assessment," Historical Geography (2005), and "Rōkaru to shite nashonaru; nashonaru to shite rōkaru; Nihon kenkyū ni okeru rōkaru hisutorii," in Steele and Kawanishi, eds., Rōkaru hisutorii to shite sekaishizō (Iwata Shoin, 2005). He is currently finishing a book manuscript on corporate village control of arable land.
Richard F. Calichman is an assistant professor at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is author of two books published by Columbia University Press in 2005: Contemporary Japanese Thought and What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi. He is working on a translation and critical introduction of Overcoming Modernity.
Darrell William Davis is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He is author of Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity, and State of the Arts (Routledge, 2007) and Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (Columbia, 2005).
Julian Dierkes is an assistant professor and Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. He is author of "The Stability of Postwar Japanese History Education and Global Changes," in Vickers and Jones, eds., History Education and National History in East Asia (Routledge, 2005), and coauthor of "Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution into Japanese Legal Education," Journal of Japanese Law (2005). His current research is on the diversity of teaching approaches in Japanese shadow education (juku).
Stephen Dodd is a senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His most recent publications include "Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojirō," in Hutchinson and Williams, eds., Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature (Routledge, 2006), and Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature (Harvard, 2004). He is currently working on translations and essays related to Kajii with the aim of producing a book.
Sabine Frühstück is a professor of modern Japanese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (California, 2007) and is now doing research on childhood and the military in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries.
Mark Fruin is a professor in the College of Business at San Jose State University. His recent publications include "Business Groups and Interfirm Networks" in Oxford Handbook of Business History (Oxford, 2006), and his current research is on Japanese firms in the world today and on energy efficient and low greenhouse gas emissions technologies of Japanese firms.
Aileen Gatten is an adjunct professor in the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Her...
