MARTHA CHAIKLIN Curator of Asian History at the Milwaukee Public Museum, USA
GREGORY CLANCEY is Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore
W. MILES FLETCHER Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, USA
SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, USA
CHRISTIAN OBERLÄNDER Professor in the Department for Japanese Studies at the University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
SUMIKO OTSUBO Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, USA
ROBERT PERRINS Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics, at Acadia University, Canada
YUKI TERAZAWA Teaches at Hofstra University in New York, USA
DAVID WITTNER Associate Professor in the Department of History at Utica College, New York, USA