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Peter Cave is a senior lecturer in Japanese studies in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Manchester. His most recent publications include "Young Children's Mathematical Activities at Preschool and Home in Japan," International Journal of Early Years of Education (2021), and he continues his research on elementary mathematics education in Japan.

David Chiavacci is a professor in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich. He is coeditor of Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam, 2020). His current research is on immigration, social inequality, and social movements in Japan.

Melissa Anne-Marie Curley is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University. She is author of "Dead Matter and Living Memory: Three Ways of Looking at the Higashi Honganji Hair Ropes," Japanese Religions (2019). Her current research project is on mindfulness, Buddhism, and stress in modern Japan.

Hugo Dobson is a professor in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is coauthor of "Teaching Global Citizenship: The Global Leadership Initiative, Its Impact and Challenges," Global Policy (2021), and "Joining Forces: Reviving Multilateralism through Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation," G20 Insights (2020). His research is on Group of 7, Group of 20, Japan's foreign policy images and international relations, and prime ministers.

Linda M. Flores is an associate professor at the University of Oxford. She is author of "In Her Footsteps: The Legacy of Professor Mizuta Noriko," Review of Japanese Culture and Society (2021), and "Kouno Fumiyo's Hi no Tori ('Bird of the Sun') Series as Documentary Manga: Memory and 3.11," Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (2019). Her research focuses on contemporary Japanese fiction and 3.11 literature.

Matthew Fraleigh is an associate professor of East Asian literature and culture at Brandeis University. His most recent publications include "Reconstructing Sino-Japanese Friendship: East Asian Literary Camaraderie in Postwar Japan's Sinitic Poetry Scene," in Kushner and Levidis, eds., In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire (Hong Kong, 2020), and his research is on theoretical discourse concerning Sinitic poetry in Japan during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

William O. Gardner is a professor of Japanese at Swarthmore College. Author of The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction (Minnesota, 2020), he is now doing research on Japanese modernism, Japanese science fiction, and intermediality in Japanese literature.

Julie Gilson is a reader in Asian studies at the University of Birmingham. She is author of EU-Japan Relations and the Crisis of Multilateralism (Routledge, 2019) and is currently doing research on climate change and environmentalism in Asia.

Reinier Hesselink is a professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He is author of The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures (1560–1640) (McFarland, 2016) and is working on a book manuscript entitled "The Suicide of Takenaka Uneme: Christianity and the Samurai."

Christopher Hood is a reader in Japanese studies at Cardiff University. Among his most recent publications is "Developing a Model to Explain Modifications to Public Transportation Accident Memorials," Mortality (2020), and "Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?" International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters (2020).

Kan Kimura is a professor in the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University. He is author of The Burden of the Past: Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations (Michigan, 2019), and his research is on Korean nationalism and historical disputes between Japan and South Korea.

Susanne Klien is an associate professor in the Modern Japanese Studies Program at Hokkaido University. She is author of Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society (SUNY, 2020) and is now doing research on transnational mobility.

Hans Martin Krämer is a professor in the Institute for Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University. He has recently coedited two works, Theosophy across Boundaries (SUNY...

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