Notes on Contributors
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Robert Aspinall is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Shiga University. His recent publications include "The Rise and Fall of Nikkyōso: Classroom Idealism, Union Power and the Three Phases of Japanese Politics since 1955," in Kersten and Williams, eds., The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy. His current research is on the politics of foreign language education in Japan.
E. Taylor Atkins is an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. His article on "The Dual Career of 'Arirang': The Korean Resistance Anthem that Became a Japanese Pop Hit" appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies (2007), and he is now doing research on Japanese cultural policy in colonial Korea.
Reiko Abe Auestad is a professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. She is author of "Ibsen's Individualism in Japan: John Gabriel Borkman and Ōgai Mori's Seinen (Youth, 1910)," Ibsen Studies (2006), and "Implications of Globalization for the Reception of Modern Japanese Literature: Murakami Haruki," in Guttman et al., eds., The Global Literary Field (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006). Her research is on Tsushima Yūko's novels.
Jeffrey P. Bayliss is an assistant professor at Trinity College in Connecticut. He is author of "Grass-roots 'Multiculturalism': Korean-Burakumin Inter-relations in One Community," Asian Cultural Studies (2001). He is currently doing research on minority identity politics and Korean-burakumin relations in Japan, 1920-45.
Augustin Berque is a professor in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is author of Nihon no sumai no fūdosei jizokusei (Nichibunken, 2007) and editor of Mouvance 2: soixante-dix mots pour le paysage (Éditions de la Villette, 2006). His research is on unsustainability in human settlements.
Michael K. Bourdaghs is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is author of The Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism (Columbia, 2003). [End Page v]
John Creighton Campbell is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio University School of Medicine. His most recent publications include "Politics of Old-age Policy-making," in Coulmas et al., eds., The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (Brill, 2007). His current research is on social politics and policy in Japan, with a particular focus on the long-term care insurance system.
John Clammer is a professor at United Nations University. He is author of "Salvation for the East? Globalization, New Religions and the Contemporary Re-Imaginings of Japanese Identity," in White, ed., Japan's Possible Futures (Routledge, forthcoming). His research is on aging in Japan, new religions, and social movements, as well as Shintō and ecology.
Loren Edelson received her Ph.D. in 2006 in Theater from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her book, Danjūrō's Girls: Women on the Kabuki Stage, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. She is cotranslator of Heaven's Sign by Matsuo Suzuki, which appeared in Half a Century of Japanese Theater: 1990s, Part 3, Volume 9 (Kinokuniya, 2007), and has just completed a commissioned dramaturgical guide to Ship in a View by the Japanese dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara.
Walter Edwards is a professor of Asian studies and chair of the Japanese Language Program at Tenri University. His most recent publications include "Heisei ni okeru Jimmu tennō: Jimmu tennō seiseki kenshōhi no genjō," Tenri University Journal (2007). His current research is on political uses of the materials of antiquity in the modern era.
W. Wayne Farris is the Sen Sōshitsu XV Chair in Traditional Japanese History and Culture at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is author of Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age (Hawai'i, 2006) and is doing research on the history of tea production and commodification in premodern Japan.
Sabine Frühstück is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular...
