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347 ContributorS peter Cave is Lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Primary School in Japan (routledge, 2007) and most recently “Japanese Colonialism and the asiaPacific war in Japan’s History textbooks: Changing representations and their Causes” (Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 2 [2013]: 542–580). Satsuki kawano is associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research interests include ritual, death and dying, aging, family and kinship, and child rearing. she is the author of Ritual Practice in Modern Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005) and Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010). Sawa kurotani is Professor of anthropology at the University of redlands, California. Her primary areas of scholarly interest have been globalization, gender, and Japanese studies, as exemplified in her first book, Home Away Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States (Duke University Press, 2005). Her current research centers on the lived work experience of Japanese female professionals and the impact of the social, economic, and legal changes in the Japanese workplace. she also has a monthly column in Daily Yomiuri, one of the largest english-language dailies published in Japan. Susan orpett long received her PhD in anthropology from the University of illinois, Urbana -Champaign. she served as John Carroll University’s first coordinator of east asian studies and is currently Professor of anthropology there. Her research interests include comparative medical systems , family change, care of the elderly, and the cross-cultural study of bioethical issues. she is the author of Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005) and Family Change and the Life Course (Cornell University east asia Papers, 1987). she edited Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan (Cornell University east asia Papers, 1999) and Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the U.S.: Practices and Policies (routledge, 2000). gordon mathews is Professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. among other books, he has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds, Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket, and Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, and he co-edited Japan’s Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? laura miller is ei’ichi shibusawa-seigo arai endowed Professor of Japanese studies and Professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri–st. Louis. she has published widely on Japanese 348 COntRIBUtORS popular culture and language, including topics such as the wizard boom, girls’ slang, and print club photos. she is the author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (University of California Press, 2006) and co-editor (with Jan Bardsley) of Bad Girls of Japan (Palgrave, 2005). she also co-edited (with Jan Bardsley) Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan (University of California Press, 2011) and (with alisa Freedman and Christine yano) Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan. karen nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist at yale University whose research focuses on disability and minority social movements in contemporary Japan. Her first book, Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (Cornell University Press, 2006), was awarded the John whitney Hall Prize from the association for asian studies. Her second book, A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Japan, was published in 2013 (Cornell University Press). she is currently working on a project involving the intersections of disability and sexuality. lynne y. nakano received her doctorate in anthropology from yale University and is a professor in the Department of Japanese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the emergences of new social identities in east asian societies, including volunteers in Japan and single women in Japan and urban China. Her current research compares the experiences of single women in tokyo, Hong Kong, and shanghai. she is the author of Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday Stories of Social Change (routledge, 2004). glenda S. roberts, who received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from Cornell University, is Professor and Director of international studies at waseda University, Graduate school of asiaPacific studies. Her research focuses on gender, work, and family in contemporary Japan, as well as on immigration policy and the reception of newcomer foreign residents in Japan...

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