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E. Taylor Atkins, Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, is the author of Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), winner of the John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, and the editor of Jazz Planet (2003). He is currently preparing a book entitled Primitive Selves: Korean Folk Performance in the Japanese Gaze.Philip C. Brown teaches Japanese history at the Ohio State University. He is the author of many studies on domain and state formation in early modern Japan, including Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain (1993). His current research concerns village and state responses to the risks of flooding and landslides in early modern and modern Japan.Leo Ching is the author of Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (2001). He is currently working on a book on anti-Japanism in Asia. He teaches at Duke University.Ray Christensen is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Brigham Young University. A specialist in Japanese politics, comparative politics, international law, and electoral systems, he is the author of Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan (2000).Frederick R. Dickinson is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of War and National ... log in or subscribe to read full text