ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Robert Aspinall is a professor in the Faculty of Economics, Shiga University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Reading University and Master’s degrees from Manchester University and Essex University in the UK. He was a secondary school teacher in England for four years before coming to on the JET programme where he worked at Urawa High school in Saitama for three years. After completing a D.Phil. doctoral degree at St Antony’s College, Oxford he worked at for three years before taking up his present position. He is the author of Teachers’ Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan (SUNY Press, 2001), International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk (Global Oriental, 2013) as well as numerous articles on Japanese education and language policy.

Malcolm Cooper teaches tourism management and environmental law at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan. Formerly Vice President for Internationalization and Research, he is a specialist in tourism resource management (natural, cultural, social) and tourism development, environmental and water resource management and environmental law, and has published widely in these fields. He has lectured at the Universities of New England, Adelaide and Southern Queensland (), and Waiariki Institute of Technology (), and has worked in the environmental planning and tourism policy areas for Federal, State and Local Governments in Australia. At other times he has been both a private environmental planning consultant in Australia, and a tourism education consultant to the Governments of Sri Lanka, and . He is a recipient of the Australian Centennial medal and has published over 150 books and papers.

J. S. (Jerry) Eades is Emeritus Professor of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge and honorary research positions in anthropology at the University of Kent and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has taught in West Africa (1971–1976), the (1976–1991), and in both national and private universities in Japan (1991–2012). His current research interests include international migration and integration, the urban environment, tourism and higher education.

Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa is a professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, where she teachers anthropology and English. Her research interests include comparative education, social inequality and the school-to-work transition. Her current research focuses on the globalization of Japanese universities and the effects of educational, family and class background on university student

231 About the contributors job hunting. She is the author of Intense Years: How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family and Friends (RoutledgeFalmer: 2001) with Gerald K. LeTendre.

Grace Gonzalez Basurto is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, International Christian University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Creative Economy, Doshisha University. She holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the University of , Japan and a M.Sc. in Asia Pacific Studies from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. She specializes in contemporary issues of urban political economy, particularly those reconfiguring the form and function of cities in the context of the knowledge/creative economy.

Paul Hansen completed his PhD in anthropology at SOAS focusing on dairy farm industrialization in Hokkaido. Through a pair of post-docs at Minpaku and his research shifted to dog-human relations in urban Japan. He currently does research on animal-human-technology, ethics, affect, and embodiment in Japan and Jamaica alongside developing a budding interest in cosmopolitanism and music and gender relations. He was a contracted assistant professor at a Japanese . He is now a contracted professor at Hokkaido University.

Thomas Hardy is an associate professor in the Faculty or Nursing and Medical Care at where he teaches English. His PhD in anthropology is from the New School, New York. He has done research on volunteerism in Japan, especially with people living with AIDS, and conducted an ethnographic study of a community and its relationship with a local garden. His current research is based on his work with a team of writers, scholars, and editors involved in constructing an English textbook series for Japanese junior high school students. He is interested in the ways culture mediates the uses of power, meaning, and language in their work.

Hiroaki Kawamura is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Language and Culture at The University of Findlay, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from The Ohio State University. His areas of research include symbolic anthropology and applied anthropology (program evaluation and language education). He has published articles on native Americans, program evaluation and study abroad. In recent years, he has been leading a community internationalization project in northwest Ohio.

John Mock is a social anthropologist who has lived and worked in the and Japan. After being retired as a professor in the Doctoral Program in International Political Economy at the , he is now a visiting professor at Temple University Japan teaching anthropology and history. He is the author of Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood 1925–1988: Hanayama (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999) and is increasingly interested in Japan outside of the Metropolitan core.

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