Notes on Contributors
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Jeffrey W. Alexander is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He is author of Japan’s Motorcycle Wars: An Industry History (British Columbia, 2008) and of the forthcoming Brewed in Japan: A History of the Japanese Beer Industry (British Columbia, 2013).
Paul S. Atkins is an associate professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. He has recently published “Meigetsuki, the Diary of Fujiwara no Teika: Karoku 2.9 (1226),” Journal of the American Oriental Society (2010), and is doing research on the poetry and poetics of Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241).
Margaret H. Childs is an associate professor at the University of Kansas. She is author of “Coercive Courtship Strategies and Gendered Goals in Classical Japanese Literature,” Japanese Language and Literature (2010), and is working on a new translation of Yowa no nezame.
Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is author of Immigration and Citizenship in Japan (Cambridge, 2010) and coauthor of “Citizenship and Marriage in a Globalizing World: Multicultural Families and Monocultural Nationality Laws in Korea and Japan,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2012). She is currently working on book manuscripts on immigrant incorporation in East Asian democracies and on citizenship, social capital, and racial politics in the Korean diaspora.
Jon Davidann is a professor of history at Hawai‘i Pacific University. He is author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941 (Palgrave, 2007) and coauthor of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History (Pearson, 2012).
Eric Dinmore is an assistant professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College. He is currently completing a book manuscript on twentieth-century resource anxieties, researching the environmental and local history of the Kurobe Dam project, and writing a book chapter on Japanese investment in postwar Indonesian oil development.
Stephen Dodd is a senior lecturer in Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has recently published [End Page v] “History in the Making: The Negotiation of History and Fiction in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Shunkinshō,” Japan Review (2012), and has also just completed a book manuscript titled “The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō.”
W. Wayne Farris is the Sen Sōshitsu XV Distinguished Chair in Traditional Japanese History and Culture at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is author of Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History (Hawai‘i, 2009) and Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2009). He is currently working on a commodity history of Japanese green tea.
W. Miles Fletcher III is a professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He recently coedited a special issue of Asia Pacifi c Business Review, titled “Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’: Causes, Legacies, and Issues of Transformative Change” (2012). His current research focuses on the lost decade of the 1990s and the Japanese business community.
Suzanne Gay is a professor of East Asian studies and history at Oberlin College. Her recent publications include “The Lamp-Oil Merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine: Transregional Trade in Medieval Japan,” Monumenta Nipponica (2009). Her current research is on sixteenth-century merchants.
Yūji Genda is a professor in the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. He is coauthor of “Long-term Effects of a Recession at Labor Market Entry in Japan and the United States,” Journal of Human Resources (2010), and his recent research is on labor economics.
Tom Havens is a professor of history at Northeastern University. He has recently published Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan (Hawai‘i, 2011) and is completing a book on long-distance running in Japan, 1900–2012.
Steven Heine is a professor in and director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. He is author of Sacred High City, Sacred Low City (Oxford, 2011) and editor of Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies (Oxford, 2012), and he is now completing a book-length study of the Zen Buddhist...
