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Christina L. Ahmadjian is a professor in and dean of the Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy. She is co-author of "A Clash of Capitalisms: Foreign Ownership and Restructuring in 1990's Japan," American Sociological Review (2005). Her research is on Japanese entrepreneurship.

Robert Aspinall is a professor at Shiga University. He is author of "Using the Paradigm of 'Small Cultures' to Explain Policy Failure in the Case of Foreign Language Education in Japan," Japan Forum (2006), and is currently involved in a project to examine the usefulness of the "risk society" paradigm for the study of various social and political phenomena in Japan.

Andrew E. Barshay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications include The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions (California, 2004) and "What Is Japan to Us?" in Hollinger, ed., The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He is currently working on a research project titled "The Gods Left First: Imperial Collapse and the Repatriation of Japanese from Northeast Asia, 1945–1956."

Bruce L. Batten is a professor of Japanese history and vice president for international relations at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. He is author of Gateway to Japan (Hawai'i, 2006) and To the Ends of Japan (Hawai'i, 2003). His research is on climate change in Japanese history and prehistory.

Lonny E. Carlile is an associate professor in the Center for Japanese Studies and the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His most recent publications include "From Outbound to Inbound: Japan's International Travel and Tourism Promotion Policy Rationales," in Itoh, ed., The Impact of Globalization on Japan's Public Policy (Edwin Mellen, 2008). His current research is on Japanese postindustrial policy.

Stephen Dodd is a senior lecturer in Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research is on Kajii Motojirō, modernism, and early Showa literature.

Sabine Frühstück is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular [Begin Page v] Culture in the Japanese Army (California, 2007), which was published in Japanese as Fuan na heishitachi (Hara ShobMō, 2008). She is working on a project titled "Playing War: The Militarization of Childhood in the Twentieth Century."

Philip Gabriel is a professor of East Asian studies at the University of Arizona. He is author of Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature (Hawai'i, 2006) and is now doing research on the late novels of the Christian novelist Miura Ayako.

Sheldon Garon is the Dodge Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is coeditor of The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (Cornell, 2006). He is completing a manuscript titled "'Keep on Saving': How Other Nations Forged Cultures of Thrift When America Didn't" and starting a new transnational study of Japan, Germany, Britain, and the United States in World War II.

Michael J. Green is an associate professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a senior adviser and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is coeditor of Asia's New Multilateralism (Columbia, 2009) and is doing research on Japanese politics, Asian regional architecture, and foreign policy history.

John O. Haley is the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. He is coauthor of a new casebook titled Comparative Law: Historical Development of the Civil Law Tradition in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, Vol. 1 (Lexis/Nexis, 2010). His research is on restorative justice, transnational litigation, and the judicial organization.

Ann M. Harrington is a professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is author of "French Mission Work in Japan: Culture and Religion in the Nineteenth Century," in Pullapilly et al., eds., Christianity and Native Cultures: Perspectives from Different Regions of the World (Cross Cultural Publications, 2004), and is working on a project titled "Catholic Women: Religious and Japanese Catholicism, 1872–1941."

Walter Hatch is an associate professor...

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