Contributors

Matthew Allen is Associate Professor of Japanese history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His major publications include Undermining the Japanese Miracle, (Cambridge UP, 1994), and Identity and Resistance in Okinawa (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). In 2006 he edited with Rumi Sakamoto Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan (Routledge). He has also published numerous chapters in collected editions, and articles in anthropology, psychiatry and history journals. Currently he spends the other half of his working life on his vanilla farm in Far North Queensland.

David Chapman is convenor of Japanese studies at the University of South
Australia. His recent publications include Zainichi Korean Identity and
Ethnicity (Routledge, 2008) and a special issue publication of Japanese
Studies entitled Korea in Japan (2006). His current research focuses on
the history of Japan's population registration systems and their role in
constructing identity in Japan.

Gracia Liu-Farrer holds concurrent Lectureships at Sophia University and Keio University, Japan. She will shortly take up the position of Visiting Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan. Her dissertation, titled Educationally Channeled International Labor Migration: Post-1978 Student Mobility from China to Japan (University of Chicago, 2007), examines the diverse labor market outcomes of contemporary Chinese student migrants in Japan. She has written articles and book chapters about the economic, social and emotional lives of the Chinese in Japan in both English and Japanese. She is currently investigating Chinese migrants' transnational labor market practices, career mobility, and the issues of racial and gender stratifications emerging in the transnational labor market between Japan and China.

Robert Fish is Director of Education and Lecture Programs at Japan Society of New York. Prior to joining the Japan Society, he was an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University and a social studies teacher at Tenafly High School in New Jersey. His research focuses on the history of childhood and education in modern Japan, including a book manuscript about the history of "mixed-blood" orphans in postwar Japan, as well as work about the "textbook controversy" in post-war Japan. Fish earned his Ph.D. in modern Japanese history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Ian J. Neary is Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, a Fellow of St. Antony’s College and University Lecturer in the Politics of Japan. He is the author of numerous articles and books including: Political Protest and Social Control in Pre-war Japan:Origins of Buraku Liberation, (1989); Intervention and Technological Innovation: Government and the Pharmaceutical Industry in the UK and Japan, (with J. Howells, 1995), Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (2002), and The State and Politics in Japan (2002). He is currently working on a biography of the Buraku leader Matsumoto Jiichiro.

John G. Russell is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Gifu University. He is the author of Nihonjin no kokujin-kan (Japanese Perceptions of Blacks) and Henken to sabetsu ga dono yo ni tsukureru ka (How are Prejudice and Discrimination Produced?)

Richard Siddle is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. He researches and teaches in the areas of modern Japanese history and minority issues with particular emphasis on race, ethnicity, nationalism and identity politics. His publications include Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan (Routledge 1996) and Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity (co-editor, Routledge 2003) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Ainu and Okinawan issues. His current research interests include identity and tourism and he is presently involved in research on the outer islands of Okinawa.

Eika Tai is Professor of Japanese at North Carolina State University. She also taught at San Francisco State University. Since receiving a Ph.D. in anthropology from University of California at Berkeley, she has written on colonial education, ethnicity, diaspora, and multiculturalism as played out in the context of multiethnic Japan. Her publications include: "Korean Ethnic Education in Japanese Public Schools," Asian Ethnicity 8.1; "Korean Activism and Ethnicity in the Changing Ethnic Landscape of Urban Japan," Asian Studies Review 30; and "‘Korean Japanese’: A New Identity Option for Resident Koreans in Japan," Critical Asian Studies 36.3. She has also published extensively in Japanese and is the author of Tabunkashugi to Diasupora (Multiculturalism and Diaspora). She is the recipient of an Osaka City University Fellowship for Foreign Researcher, and has co-authored with faculty of that university a book on Diaspora Studies in the context of Japan.

Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. After receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1997 from the University of California at Berkeley, he was a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and then served as Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego. His primary academic interests include international migration, diasporas, ethnic minorities, ethnic and national identity, transnationalism and globalization, ethnic return migrants, the Japanese diaspora in the Americas, and contemporary Japanese society. His publications include numerous articles in anthropological and interdisciplinary journals as well as a book entitled Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective (Columbia University Press, 2003). He is also the editor of Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective (Lexington Books, 2006) and co-editor of Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (second edition, Stanford University Press, 2004) and Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century (Alta Mira Press, 2006). He has received research grants and fellowships from the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego), Fulbright-Hays, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation among others.

Michael Weiner is Professor of modern Japanese History and Director of International Studies at Soka University of America. He has previously held positions at San Diego State University, and at the School of East Asian Studies, the University of Sheffield, where he served as Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies. He is also former Managing Editor of Japan Forum, and serves on the advisory board of numerous international journals. His publications include: The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan: 1910-1923 (1989); The Internationalization of Japan (with G.D. Hook, 1992); Race and Migration in Imperial Japan (1994), Japan’s Minorities; the illusion of homogeneity, 1^st edition (1997), and Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan [3 vols.] 2004. His current research focuses on the history of medicine in Japan. He has received grants from the Japan Foundation, Nippon Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council. Under funding provided by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, he also served as Director of the Japan Studies Institute (2000-2005) at San Diego State University, where he holds the title