Paul D. Talcott Timothy J. Van Compernolle Independent Scholar Amherst, Prof. of Japanese The spread of market mechanisms in health care policy in The creative exchanges between literature and cinema in and East ; the relationship between economic interwar Japan development, democracy, and the introduction of market [email protected] principles into social insurance systems [email protected] Elena Varshavskaya Rhode Island School of Design, Senior Lecturer Wako Tawa Repercussions of the textile patterns of the Silk Road in Amherst, Prof. of Asian Languages and Civilizations; ukiyo-e prints Director of Language Study [email protected] Synonyms in Japanese;Japanese grammar for learners of Japanese Alexander M. Vesey [email protected] Meiji Gakuin, Assoc. Prof. of Global & Transcultural Studies Early modern Japanese Buddhist social history Sarah Thompson [email protected] MFA, Curator of Japanese Art Japanese prints in the MFA collection, especially ukiyo-e James Keith Vincent woodblock prints BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese and Comparative Literature [email protected] Literary friendship between Natsume Soseki and Masaoka Shiki R. Kenji Tierney [email protected] SUNY New Paltz, Adj. Prof. of Anthropology Sumo, sports, food consumption, globalization, history Louise E. Virgin [email protected] Independent Curator of Japanese Art Japanese Shijo surimono prints with emphasis on haiku A. Maria Toyoda poems and poets who composed them Suffolk, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences [email protected] Capital account liberalization and Japanese infrastructure financing; Infrastructure and materiality Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano [email protected] Carleton (Ottawa), Prof. of Film Studies Post-Occupation Cinema, especially the 1950s Japan; Alice Y. Tseng "Japan" in the cultural discourses after 3.11 BU, Assoc. Prof. of Art History; [email protected] Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture Enthronements and imperial celebrations held in modern Mariko N. Walter Kyoto; Japanese exhibition pavilions overseas Independent Scholar, Executive Director of ACANSRS [email protected] Death and afterlife in Japanese Buddhism in relation to gender issues Yolanda A. Tsuda [email protected] Kobe College, Prof. of Global Studies Oral history of early Filipino women migrants to Japan Garrett L. Washington [email protected] UMass Amherst, Asst. Prof. of History Japanese Protestant churches; Japan YWCA and Japanese Mary Evelyn Tucker imperialism; Hirooka Asako Yale, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar [email protected] Religion and ecology; Book Thomas Berry and the Arc of History (2019) Takeshi Watanabe [email protected] Wesleyan, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Studies Historical tales, representations of food in literature, and illustrated scrolls [email protected]

Robert J. Weiner Emi Yamanaka Naval Postgrad. School, Lecturer in Political Science BU, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Comparative politics and security policies of Japan, the Language pedagogy; second language acquisition Koreas, and East and Southeast Asia [email protected] [email protected] Kikuko Yamashita Victoria Weston Brown, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Language and Linguistics UMass Boston, Assoc. Prof. of Art Looking at "Kanbun" as Japan's foreign language education Okakura Kakuzo in the American Northeast; Exhibition, in early Heian to Kamakura periods Boston College, BC Eagle (19thcentury Japan) [email protected] [email protected] Midori Yoshii Merry White Albion College, Prof. of International Studies BU, Prof. of Sociology and Anthropology William Bundy and Marshall Green as Assistant Secretary of Ethnographic research on “work” in Japan in food, from State for East Asian Affairs, 1964-1973 domestic, to artisanal, to industrial work [email protected] [email protected] Anna M. Zielinska-Elliott Ellen B. Widmer BU, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Wellesley, Mayling Soong Prof. of Chinese Studies Translation of the newest Murakami Haruki novel and an The work of Sarah K. Bolton as translated into Japanese article on teaching Japanese literature and Chinese [email protected] [email protected] Eve K. Zimmerman Michael A. Witt Wellesley, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese INSEAD, Prof. of Strategy and International Business Trope of girlhood in modern Japanese literary culture International business, varieties of capitalism in Japan, [email protected] , Korea, and [email protected] (CG 3-1-19)

David Wittner Utica College, Prof. of East Asian History Meiji industrialization, visual and material culture [email protected]

Aida Yuen Wong Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of Asian Art China-Japan relations and transnationalism; Nakamura Fusetsu and his circle of Japanese calligraphers who popularized metal-and-stone aesthetic in late 19th and early 20th centuries [email protected]

Tadashi Yamamoto Independent Scholar Japanese mythology and psychology; computational intelligence; mathematical modeling; food culture [email protected]