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ELISE EDWARDS is an associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of History and Anthropology at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. She recently authored “Fields of Individuals and Neoliberal Logics: Japanese Soccer Ideals and the 1990s Economic Crisis” in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues (2014), and “The Promises and Possibilities of the Pitch: 1990s Ladies League Soccer Players as Fin-de-siècle Modern Girls” in Christine Yano and Laura Miller, eds., Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (2013). She is currently completing a book manuscript about soccer, corporate sport, the 1990s recession, and national identity in Japan, which is tentatively titled Fields for the Future: Soccer and Citizens in Japan at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. She also is pursuing a new project on the intersections between Japan’s “hometown” soccer movement, grassroots activism, volunteerism, and ever-evolving relationships between public and private entities in contemporary Japan. Edwards both played and coached soccer in the Japanese women’s “L-League” in the mid-1990s and continued to work as a goalkeeping coach with Butler University’s women’s soccer team until 2016.

SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK is a professor of modern Japanese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is mostly concerned with the history and ethnography of modern Japanese culture and its relations to the rest of the world. Her book publications include Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (2003), Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (2007), and Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (2017). She coedited with Anne Walthall, Recreating Japanese Men (2011) and is currently writing a book, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press).

KATHRYN E. GOLDFARB is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research explores the effects of social inclusion and exclusion on well-being, and how social relationships shape bodily experience. In Japan, she conducts research on the stakes of disconnection from family networks, focusing specifically on children and caregivers within the Japanese child welfare system. Her research explores how kinship ideologies articulate with discourses of Japanese national and cultural identity, and how these discourses shape understandings of what is “normal.” Her research further examines how these concepts of normalcy are caught up in global circuits of knowledge surrounding human development, child rights, and concepts of “care” under the rubric of social welfare.

JINNŌ YUKI earned her doctorate from the Institute of Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba. She is professor of modern design and cultural history of Japan at the Department of Interhuman Symbiotic Studies, Kanto Gakuin University. Among other books and articles, she is the author of Shumi no tanjō (The birth of taste, Keisō Shobo 1994), Kodomo o meguru desain to kindai (Design and modern times of the child, Sekai Shisō-sha 2011), and Hyakkaten de shumi o kau (Buying a hobby at a department store, Yoshikawa Kobun Kan 2015). She has also coauthored Hyakkaten no bunkashi (A cultural history of the department store, Sekai Shisō-sha 1999), and Arts and Crafts to Nihon (Arts and crafts and Japan, Shibunkaku Shuppan 2004).

KORESAWA HIROAKI graduated from Tōyō University and is currently a professor in the Department of Childhood Studies at Otsuma Women’s University. He specializes in the cultural history of everyday life and of children and childhood. The author of many books, he has written Nihon ningyō no bi (The beauty of Japanese dolls, Tankōsha 2008), Kyōiku gangu no kindai: Kyōiku taishō toshite no kodomo tanjō (The modern history of educational toys: The birth of children as object of education, Seori shobō 2009), and Aoi me no ningyō to kindai Nihon (Blue-eyed dolls and modern Japan, Seori shobō 2011), among others.

NORIKO MANABE is associate professor of music studies at Temple University. Her monograph, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima (Oxford 2015) won the John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and Honorable Mention for the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her monograph, Revolution Remixed: Intertextuality in Protest Music, and two coedited volumes, Nuclear Music (with Jessica Schwartz) and Oxford Handbook of Protest Music (with Eric Drott), are forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She has published articles on Japanese rap, hip-hop DJs, online radio, the music business, wartime children’s songs, and Cuban music in Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, Asian Music, Asia-Pacific Journal, Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures, Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, among other volumes. She is series editor for 33–1/3 Japan, a book series; contributing editor for the Asia-Pacific Journal; and editorial board member for Music and Politics and Twentieth-Century Music. Her research has been supported by fellowships from NEH, Kluge, Japan Foundation, and SSRC/JSPS.

AARON WILLIAM MOORE (PhD Princeton, 2006) is a senior lecturer in the History Department at the University of Manchester, where he teaches the comparative history of East Asia. He has published on diary-writing practices among combat soldiers in Japan, China, and the United States, including his first monograph, Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire (Harvard University Press, 2013). He has recently completed a book on civilian narratives of aerial bombing in Britain and Japan (Bombing the City, Cambridge University Press, 2017), and is developing a new manuscript on the history of wartime childhood and youth in Britain, Japan, China, and the Soviet Union. His research on childhood and youth has been published in Japanese Studies and Modern China, and has included funding awards from the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2014 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

L. HALLIDAY PIEL is an assistant professor of history at Lasell College in Massachusetts. She received her doctorate from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, focusing on the history of childhood in Japan. Piel spent two years as a research associate with the project “Remembering and Recording Childhood Education and Youth in Japan, 1925–1945,” codirected by Peter Cave and Aaron Moore at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Piel’s papers for this project, currently in press, include “Japanese Adolescents and the Wartime Labor Service, 1941–1945: Service or Exploitation?” Japanese Studies; “The School Diary in Wartime Japan: Cultivating Morale and Self-discipline through Writing,” Modern Asian Studies; and “Recruiting Japanese Boys for the Pioneer Youth Core of Manchuria and Mongolia,” a chapter in Mischa Honek and James Marten, eds., More than Victims: War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars (Cambridge University Press). Her previously published articles on childhood and war in Japan include “Food Rationing and Children’s Self-Reliance in Japan, 1942–1952,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 5, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 393–418, and “The Family State and Forced Youth Migrations in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945,” Revue d’histoire de l’enfance irrégulière 15 (October 2013).

OR PORATH is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research centers on medieval Japanese religion and its conceptualization of sexual norms, specifically, the figure of the acolyte (chigo/dōji) and its role as an object of sexual longing in the Tendai Eshin lineage, and the way in which the acolyte’s divine status was affirmed and contested by medieval Buddho-Shinto doctrine, ritual, and narrative in general. Porath has published an article on the topic of monastic male-male sexuality in medieval Japan, “The Cosmology of Male-Male Love in Medieval Japan: Nyakudō no Kanjinchō and the Way of Youths,” Journal of Religion in Japan 4, no. 2: 241–71, and is currently translating several articles on medieval Japanese religion and culture. Porath is also the recipient of a Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2015–16), and an American Counsel of Learned Societies, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies dissertation fellowship (2017–18). He is currently a visiting research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, and a collaborative research fellow in the Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Texts at Nagoya University, Japan.

LUKE S. ROBERTS earned his doctorate in East Asian studies at Princeton University in 1991 and is currently a professor of early modern Japanese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in Eighteenth Century Tosa (1998), and Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan (2012), and coauthor with Sharon Takeda of Japanese Fisherman’s Coats from Awaji Island (2001). His current book project is called A Samurai’s Life, a biography of an eighteenth-century samurai of no particular repute pursued as a form of social history.

HARALD SALOMON studied modern history and Japanese studies at the University of Tübingen and Rikkyō University, Tokyo. He conducted his doctoral research at Waseda University and the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, and completed his doctorate at Humboldt University, Berlin. His research interests focus on the history of interactions between Japan and Europe during the transition to modernity, Japanese film and media culture, and the history of family and childhood. He is the director of the Mori Ogai Memorial Center and a lecturer at the Seminar for East Asian Studies of Humboldt University, Berlin. His publications include Views of the Dark Valley: Japanese Cinema and the Culture of Nationalism, 1937–45 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011). He coedited the volume Kindheit in der japanischen Geschichte: Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen / Childhood in Japanese History: Concepts and Experiences (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016).

EMILY B. SIMPSON is a doctoral candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research centers on medieval reinterpretations of the legend of Empress Jingū and their role in the formation of late medieval and early modern women’s cults. Her fields of interest include Japanese religious syncretism, shamanism, Japanese folklore, and women and gender in premodern East Asia. In addition to her multiple translations of academic articles, Simpson has also authored a book chapter, “An Empress at Sea: Sea Deities and Divine Union in the Legend of Empress Jingū” in the forthcoming volume Sea Religion in Japan, edited by Fabio Rambelli, and several entries on women and Shinto for the Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, ABC-CLIO, 2017.

JUNKO TERUYAMA earned her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan and is currently an assistant professor of cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Tsukuba. She has conducted fieldwork on the community of individuals with learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder and their family members in Tokyo. Her recent publications include “Politics of Care and Ethics of Intervention in Treatment Programs for Children with Developmental Disability,” in Ecologies of Care: Innovations through Technologies, Collectives and the Senses (Osaka University Institute for Academic Initiatives 2014).

ANNE WALTHALL is Professor emerita at the University of California, Irvine. She has published extensively on many topics in Edo-period history, ranging from peasant uprisings to guns to steamships. Her publications include Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan (1986), Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories (1991), The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (1998), and Japan: A Cultural, Social, and Political History (2006). She has edited or coedited a number of volumes, most recently Recreating Japanese Men (2011) with Sabine Frühstück and Politics and Society in Japan’s Meiji Restoration: A Brief History with Documents (2017) with M. William Steele.