The Journal of Japanese Studies

Coeditors

Janet Hunter, London School of Economics and Politics

Morgan Pitelka, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Associate Editors

Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago

Mary C. Brinton, Harvard University

Susan L. Burns, University of Chicago

James C. Dobbins, Oberlin College

Sheldon Garon, Princeton University

Edward Kamens, Yale University

Patricia Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin

Mark Metzler, University of Washington

T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley

Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara

Editorial Advisory Board

E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University

Simon Avenell, Australian National University

Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington

Amy Borovoy, Princeton University

Daniel H. Foote, University of Tokyo

Sabine Frühstück, University of California, Santa Barbara

William Grimes, Boston University

Laura Hein, Northwestern University

Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick

Lori Meeks, University of Southern California

Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky

Amy Stanley, Northwestern University

Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University

J. Marshall Unger, Ohio State University

Lori Watt, Washington University in St. Louis

Managing Editor

Martha Lane Walsh