Notes on Contributors
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Kweku Ampiah is a lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Leeds. He is editor of a special issue of The Round Table on Japan and the Commonwealth (2010) and author of The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955: The Reactions of the US, UK and Japan (Global Oriental, 2007). His research is on Japan's relations with the African countries.
Mary C. Brinton is a professor of sociology at the Reischauer Institute and chair of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her most recent publication is Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan (Cambridge, 2011), and she is now working on a comparative study of low fertility in postindustrial societies.
Peter Cave is a lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include "Learning in Japan: Structures, Practices, Purposes," in Zhao et al., eds., Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective (Routledge, 2010), and his research is on Japanese school education, especially at the elementary and junior high levels.
Frederick Dickinson is an associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999) and Taishō tennō (Minerva, 2009). He is working on a study of Japanese political and cultural reconstruction following World War I (1919-31).
James Dorsey is an associate professor at Dartmouth College. He is coeditor of and contributor to Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War (Lexington Books, 2010). His research is on wartime Japan and on the political folk song movement of Japan in the 1960s.
Darryl Flaherty is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware. His research is on the social and cultural history of Japanese law and politics.
David G. Goodman is a professor of Japanese literature, Jewish studies, and theatre at the University of Illinois. His recent works include "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Japan," in Webman, ed., The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth (Routledge, 2011), and "The Ambiguity of Philosemitism in Japan," in Diekmann [End Page v] and Kotowski, eds., Geliebter Feind, gehasster Freund: Antisemitismus und Philosemitismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Verlag für Berlin Brandenburg, 2009).
Gustav Heldt is an associate professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Virginia. He is author of The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, 2008) and is now doing research on Ki no Tsurayuki's Tosa nikki and the genesis of Japanese court fiction.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit is a professor of Japanology (literature and cultural studies) at Freie Universität Berlin. Among her most recent publications are two volumes she coedited: Yukio Mishima: Poetik, Performanz, Politik (Iudicium, 2010) and Grosses japanisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, Vol. 1 (Iudicium, 2009).
Christopher Hill is a visiting associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He has recently published "Nana in the World: Novel, Gender, and Transnational Form," Modern Language Quarterly (2011), and "The Travels of Naturalism and the Challenges of a World Literary History," Literature Compass (2009).
David L. Howell is a professor of Japanese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His recent publications include "Busō suru nōmin no naiyū to gaikan," in Kimura, ed., Kōza Meiji ishin, Vol. 1 (Yūshisha, 2010), and "The Girl with the Horse-Dung Hairdo," in Thomsen and Purtle, eds., Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II (Center for the Arts of East Asia, University of Chicago, 2009). He is working on a book on the fear of social disorder and foreign invasion in the hinterland of Edo in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Nam-lin Hur is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007). His current research...
