About Japan Focus

Japan Focus is a peer-reviewed open source electronic journal and fully-indexed archive on the Asia Pacific. Ranging widely across the geopolitics, political economy, history, society, culture, and international relations of the Asia Pacific, it offers regional and global perspectives on contemporary issues and conflicts. In addition to articles and interviews prepared explicitly for Japan Focus, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles and documents. Japan Focus draws on the contributions of researchers, journalists, policy analysts and writers throughout Asia and the world. Its website with more than 1,100 articles is a permanent and fully indexed resource. More than 4,000 subscribers receive a weekly newsletter linking to four to nine new articles. More than 100,000 articles are accessed each month at our website, and many more at other sites that reproduce these articles.

Coordinators

The coordinators are responsible for the day to day operations of the journal, and, in consultation with the associates, for charting its longterm direction. The coordinators are

Andrew DeWit Rikkyo University, Tokyo, dewit@rikkyo.ne.jp
Geoffrey Gunn Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, nag-gunn@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Laura Hein Northwestern University, Chicago, l-hein@northwestern.edu
Gavan McCormack Australian National University, Canberra, gavan@coombs.anu.edu.au
David McNeill Sophia University, Tokyo, davidaamcneill@hotmail.com
Mark Selden Cornell University, Ithaca, ms44@cornell.edu
Yuki Tanaka Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima, tanaka-t@peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
William Underwood Kurume Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, kyushubill@yahoo.com

Contact Japan Focus

Write to info@japanfocus.org

Associates

Japan Focus is made possible by the contributions of associates on four continents who recommend material to publish and translate, peer-review manuscripts, provide translations, and contribute their own writing. The Associates are Nobuko Adachi, Yonson Ahn, Matthew Allen, Andrea Arai, Cemil Aydin, Tim Beal, Herbert Bix, Heather Bowen-Struyk, Mark Caprio, T. Matthew Ciolek, Zeljko Cipris, J Sean Curtin, John de Boer, John Dower, Mark Ealey, Aya Ezawa, John Feffer, Norma Field, Joshua Fogel, Ruediger Frank, Sabine Fruhstuck, Aaron Gerow, Andrew Gordon, Kimie Hara, Julie Higashi, Andreas Hippin, Linda Hoaglund, Jean Inglis, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Rebecca Jennison, Eric Johnston, John Junkerman, Jeff Kingston, Victor Koschmann, Adam Lebowitz, Douglas Lummis, Hisane Masaki, John McGlynn, Ben Middleton, Richard Minear, Michael Molasky, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, R. Taggart Murphy, Atsuko Nelson, Chris Nelson, James Orr, Emanuel Pastreich, Michael Penn, Matthew Penney, Roger Pulvers, Steve Rabson, Lawrence Repeta, Sonia Ryang, Rumi Sakamoto, Philip Seaton, Kyoko Selden, Ann Sherif, Aaron Skabelund, Akiko Takenaka, Mariko Tamanoi, Richard Tanter, Andre Vltchek, Vanessa Ward, Melissa Wender and Julia Yonetani.

Interns

Yayoi Koizumi, David Hillis, Allen Schmaltz

ISSN Number

1557-4660

Reprinting

Permission is granted to forward electronically to others and to post Japan Focus texts on non-commercial community Internet sites and course sites, provided the texts are reproduced intact and the source indicated. To publish Japan Focus texts in electronic, printed and/or other forms, contact info@japanfocus.org