Notes on Contributors
Rent from DeepDyveMatthew Allen is an associate professor at the University of Auckland. He is coeditor of Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan (Routledge, 2006) and author of "Being Male in a Female World: Masculinity and Gender in Okinawan Shamanism," in McLelland and Dasgupta, eds., Genders, Transgenders, and Identities in Japan (Routledge, 2005). He is now doing research on national and popular culture and on Okinawan diasporas.
Eyal Ben-Ari is a professor of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is doing research on Japanese early childhood education and on the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Davinder Bhowmik is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. She is author of "Literature as Public Memory: The Writings of Medoruma Shun," in Josef Kreiner, ed., Japaneseness versus Ryukyuanism: Papers Read at the Fourth International Conference on Okinawa Studies (Bier'sche Verlagsanstalt, 2006). Her latest research is on twentieth-century fiction from Okinawa.
Patricia Boling is an associate professor of political science and women's studies at Purdue University. Her article on "Policies to Support Working Mothers and Children in Japan" appeared in Rosenbluth, ed., Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford, 2006), and her current research focuses on a comparison of family support policies in Japan, France, Germany, and the United States and on policies regarding working mothers in U.S. law and politics.
Mary C. Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She is coeditor of The Declining Significance of Gender? (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006) and editor of Women's Working Lives in East Asia (Stanford, 2001). She is currently working on a book manuscript on how employment restructuring in postbubble Japan has affected the younger generation.
Kendall H. Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Art at California State University, Long Beach. He is author of Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces (Hotei, 2005) and is now doing research on the social history of Japanese-style gardens in North America.
Susan L. Burns is an associate professor of history and East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is author of [End Page v] Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Duke, 2003), and her current research is on medicine and conceptions of the body in Meiji Japan.
Richard F. Calichman is an associate professor at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is editor and translator of Overcoming Modernity (Columbia, 2007) and also guest editor of a 2007 issue of positions: east asia cultures critique on philosophy and the political in wartime Japan.
Joel Cohn is an associate professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai'i at Ma¯noa. His translation of Natsume Sōseki's Botchan appeared in 2005 (Kodansha International), and he is also author of Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard University Asia Center, 1998).
Frederick R. Dickinson is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent publications include "Dai-ichiji sekai taisengo no Nihon no kōsō," in Itō and Kawada, eds., Nijū seiki Higashi Ajia no chitsujo kesei to Nihon (Minerva, 2007). He is now working on a book-length manuscript on Japanese empire and nation in the politics of national reconstruction, 1919–31.
Kevin M. Doak holds the Nippon Foundation Endowed Chair at Georgetown University. His most recent publications include "The Concept of Ethnic Nationality and Its Role in Pan-Asianism in Imperial Japan," in Saaler and Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History (Routledge, 2007), and A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People (Brill, 2006). His latest research focuses on Catholic writers in twentieth-century Japan.
James A. Fujii is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is editor of Maeda Ai's Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity (Duke...
