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Jessamyn R. Abel is an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train (Stanford, 2021) and "Technologies of Cold War Diplomacy: Transforming Postwar Japan," Technology and Culture (2021). She is currently researching the intertwined politics and culture of food security and self-sufficiency in postwar Japan.

Jonathan E. Abel is an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. He is coeditor of Information: Keywords (Columbia, 2021) and coauthor of "Introduction: Information + Humanities" in that volume. He is completing a manuscript entitled "The New Real: Media, Marketing, and Mimesis Made in Japan," a synthetic history of new media in Japan.

Erin L. Brightwell is an associate professor of premodern Japanese literature at the University of Michigan. She is author of Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre (Harvard Asia Center, 2020), and "Making Meaning: Lexical Glosses as Interpretive Interventions in the Kakaishō," Journal of Japanese Studies (2021). Her research is on medieval Japanese narrative strategies and twentiethcentury text-based intercultural "encounters" between Japan, Germany, and Taiwan.

Kaye Broadbent is an independent scholar in Brisbane. She is editor and cotranslator of Sugiura Masao, Against the Storm: How Japanese Printworkers Resisted the Military Regime, 1935–1945 (Interventions, 2019). Her current research is on a history of the revolutionary left in Japan.

Philip C. Brown is an emeritus professor of Japanese and East Asian history at the Ohio State University. His most recent publications include "Sharing the Pain: Apportioning Natural Hazards Exposure in Early Modern Japan," Sustainability (2021). His latest research is on the history of Japanese efforts to ameliorate flood and landslide risk, circa 1600–1990.

Peter Cave is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include "Story, Song, and Ceremony: Shaping Dispositions in Japanese Elementary Schools during Taisho and Early Showa," Japan Forum (2015), and his research focuses on mathematics education in contemporary elementary schools.

Kyle Cleveland is an associate professor of sociology at Temple University, Japan Campus. He is coeditor of Legacies of Fukushima: 3/11 in Context (Pennsylvania, 2021), and his research is on epistemic narratives of risk in the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Harald Conrad is a professor in the Department of Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is coauthor of the recent "Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters," Work, Employment and Society (2020), and he is currently doing research on Japanese human resource management.

Nina Cornyetz is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at the Gallatin School at New York University. She is coeditor of Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone (Lexington, 2015), and she is now working on a book on the semiotics of gender in Japanese literature and cinema.

Evan N. Dawley is an associate professor of history at Goucher College. He is author of Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s (Harvard Asia Center, 2019) and coeditor of Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia (Lexington, 2021). His research focuses on the global construction of China, and the modern nation, through Chinese overseas.

Chad R. Diehl is an assistant professor, general faculty, in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is author of Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell, 2018), and he is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled "Melodies of Memory: Framing Japanese War Narratives and Democracy in 1950s Film."

Martin Dusinberre is professor and chair for Global History at the University of Zurich. His recent publications include "J. R. Seeley and Japan's Pacific Expansion," Historical Journal (2021); he is also coeditor of a special issue of Historische Anthropologie entitled "Transplantation: Sugar and Imperial Practice in Japan's Pacific" (2019).

Mark Ericson is an adjunct professor of Asian studies at the University of Maryland Global Campus. He is author of "'Yankee Impertinence, Yankee...

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