Notes on Contributors

Anne Allison is a professor in and chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her most recent book, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (California), is due out in 2006.

Paul Anderer is the Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities at Columbia University. He is author of Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo—Literary Criticism, 1924–1939 (Stanford, 1995) and is currently doing research on "Kurosawa in black and white."

William M. Bodiford is a professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is editor of Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya (Hawai'i, 2005), associate editor of Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Macmillan, 2005), and author of "Medieval Period" in Swanson and Chilson, eds., The Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religion (Hawai'i, 2005). His current research is on Buddhist reform movements in Tokugawa Japan.

Linda H. Chance is an associate professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She has recently published "Accessorizing the Text: The Role of Commentary in the Creation of Readers," Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 5 (2004), and is now doing research on literary masquerade across gender lines.

John Clark is a professor of art history and theory at the University of Sydney. He is author of "Women Artists in France," in Mosquera and Fisher, eds., Over Here (MIT, 2004), and his research now focuses on new biennales in Asia.

Paul E. Dunscomb is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has recently published articles in Military Review (2003) and Asian Studies Newsletter (2004) and is working on a book-length treatment of Siberian intervention and its influence on Japan's domestic politics.

Hank Glassman is an assistant professor of East Asian studies at Haverford College. His publications include "'Show Me the Place Where My Mother Is!' Chūjōhime, Preaching, and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan," in Payne and Tanaka, eds., Approaching the Pure Land: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amita°bha (Hawai'i, 2003). His current research is on an iconological investigation of the Jizō cult, 1200–1600.

John O. Haley is the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and director of the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He is author of Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Fifty Years, 1947–1998 (Washington, 2001) and is doing research on comparative judicial systems and on legal traditions.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Harvard, 2005) and is now doing research on ending the Pacific War: leaders, advisers, and secondary players.

Tom Havens is a professor of history at Northeastern University. His latest book, Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism (Hawai'i), is due out in spring 2006. His research currently focuses on the history of public parks in Japan and its colonies, from 1873 to the present.

Timothy Iles is an assistant professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. He is author of "Female Voices, Male Words," published in electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk), and he is currently doing research on identity in contemporary Japanese horror films and on contested feminism in Japanese cinema.

Anne E. Imamura is an adjunct professor of sociology at Georgetown University. She is author of Re-Imaging Japanese Women (California, 1996).

Misa Izuhara is a research fellow in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. She is author of "Residential Property, Cultural Practices, and the 'Generational Contract,'" Intergenerational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2005). She is doing comparative research on intergenerational asset transfer in Britain...