- Notes on Contributors
Mikael Adolphson is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. He is author of The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History (Hawai‘i, 2007) and coeditor of Heian Japan: Centers and Peripheries (Hawai‘i, 2007). His current research is on the Taira vision of a trade empire: Japan’s first economic miracle?
Christina L. Ahmadjian is a professor in the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University. She is coauthor of “Using Hostages to Support Exchange: Dependence Balancing and Partial Equity Stakes in Japanese Automotive Supply Relationships,” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (2006), and “A Clash of Capitalisms: Foreign Ownership and Restructuring in 1990’s Japan,” American Sociological Review (2005).
Andrew E. Barshay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions (California, 2004) appeared in Japanese translation in 2007. His current project is titled “The Gods Left First: Imperial Collapse and the Repatriation of Japanese from Northeast Asia, 1945–56.”
Davinder L. Bhowmik is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. She is author of Writing Okinawa: Narratives of Identity and Resistance (Routledge, 2008) and is currently doing research on violence in contemporary fiction from Okinawa.
Lee Butler is an associate professor of history at Southern Virginia University. He is author of “ ‘Washing Off the Dust’: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan,” Monumenta Nipponica (2005), and “Patronage and the Building Arts in Tokugawa Japan,” Early Modern Japan (2002). His current research is on a village, Hineno estate, in the Warring States period.
Tessa Carroll is a freelance researcher in Stirling. She is author of “Changing Language, Gender and Family Relations in Japan,” in Rebick and Takenaka, eds., The Changing Japanese Family (Curzon, 2006), and her research focuses on community language provision in higher education. [End Page vi]
Margaret H. Childs is an associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kansas. Her publications include “The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature,” Journal of Asian Studies (1999), and her latest research is on Heian-Kamakura narrative fiction.
Thomas D. Conlan is an associate professor of Japanese history at Bowdoin College. He is author of “Thicker than Blood: The Social and Political Significance of Wet Nurses in Japan, 950–1330,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2005), and is now doing research on the political significance of esoteric Buddhism and the imperial regalia and on literacy.
Michael Cusumano is the SMR Distinguished Professor of Management and Engineering Systems at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT School of Engineering. His most recent publication is The Business of Software (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2004), and he is currently doing research on technology management and strategy and on services innovation.
Reinhard Drifte is a professor emeritus of Newcastle University and a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics. His most recent publications include Japan’s Security Relations with China since 1989 (Routledge, 2003) and “The Ending of Japan’s ODA Loan Programme to China,” Asia-Pacific Review (2006). He is currently doing research on territorial disputes between Japan and China.
Alexis Dudden is an associate professor of history and director of Humanitarian Studies at the University of Connecticut. Author of Troubled Apologies among Japan, Korea, and the United States (Columbia, 2008), she is doing research on food security in Northeast Asia.
Robert Efird is an assistant professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Seattle University. He is author of “Japanese Environmental NGOs in China,” China Development Brief (2007), and his current research is on Japanese environmental NGOs in China. He received his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Washington in 2004; his dissertation was titled “Japan’s War Orphans and New Overseas Chinese: History, Identification, and (Multi)ethnicity.”
Petrice R. Flowers is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is author of “Shaping [End Page vii] State Identity: International Law...