James D Babb - The SAGE Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies

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James Babbis Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He holds an MA in East Asian Studies and PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. He is also currently the Newcastle University representative for the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (UK) and a member of the international advisory board for the British Association of Japanese Studies journal Japan Forum. He has published a number of journal articles on Japan and is the author of Tanaka and the Making of Post-war Japan (Longman, 2000), Business and Politics in Japan (Manchester University Press, 2001) and co-author of Empirical Political Analysis (Longman, 2012), a textbook of political science methodology.

Robert W. Aspinallis Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Shiga University. He was a secondary school history teacher in England before coming to Japan on the JET programme. After completing a DPhil doctoral degree at St Antony's, College, Oxford he worked at Nagoya University as a visiting lecturer before taking up his present position. He is the author of Teachers Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan (SUNY Press, 2001) and International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk (Global Oriental, 2013) as well as numerous articles on Japanese educational politics and policy.Andrew Cobbingreceived his first degree in History from the University of Bristol before completing his Masters at Kyushu University and PhD at SOAS, University of London. He then spent several years working at Kyushu University and is now an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of, among other works, The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain (Routledge, 1998) and Kyushu: Gateway to Japan (Global Oriental Ltd., 2009). He has also been involved in some major translation projects including Volume Three in Kume Kunitake's official account of the Iwakura Embassy (The Japan Documents, 2002) and, most recently, the last volume of Shiba Rytars