Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University. Specializes in modern Japanese literature and culture, immigrant literature, and publishing culture. Major publications: A Literary History of Self-Representation: The Emergence of Novels Writing About Oneself, Kanrin Shobo, 2002. "Newspapers and Literature of the First Generation of Japanese Immigrants to America," Japanese Literature, No. 617, November 2004. "Japanese Immigrants in North America and Japanese Bookstores: With a Focus on San Francisco," Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1, September 2008. "Immigrant Imagination: Discourse on Traveling to America and Visions of Literary Texts," JunCture, No. 1, January 2010. http://park18.wakwak.com/~hibi/

(Updated June 2010)

Professor at Osaka University of Commerce. Specializes in human geography and Japanese immigration history. Major works: "Historical Geography of Japanese Americans in Hawaii" (sole author, Nakanishiya Publishing). "Changes in Japanese American Society and Christian Churches in Hawaii" (editor, Doshisha University Institute of Humanities). "History of the Japanese Christian Movement in North America" ​​(co-author, PMC Publishing). "The Dawn of Japanese Society in America" ​​(co-author, Gendai Shiryo Publishing).

(Updated April 2010)

Born in Osaka in 1963, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, specializing in historical geography. Major works include "The Experiences and International Migration of Japanese People: The Modern History of Overseas Japanese and Immigrants" (co-edited with Yutaka Yoneyama, Jinbun Shoin, 2007) and "Activities of Japanese People in Jeju Island, Korea during the Colonial Period," an article included in "Remote Island Studies II" edited by Akitoshi Hiraoka (Kaiseisha, 2007).

(Updated February 2011)

Doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. Specializes in American studies, Japanese American history and literature. His papers include "The Story of a Second Generation Returnee Who Chose Disloyalty: What Can Be Seen from Edward T. Miyakawa's Tule Lake " ( AALA Journal No. 12, Asian American Literature Research Association, 2006) and "Okina Hisayoshi's Identity and Literary Theory of Immigrant Lands" (Human and Environmental Studies, Vol. 16, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, 2007).

(Updated June 2009)

Professor at Hannan University. Specializes in the history of Japanese religious thought and Asian American religious studies. He is researching the globalization of Japanese Buddhism from a cross-border perspective that connects modern Japanese history with Asian American history. His major works include The Birth of American Buddhism: Cultural Transformation of Japanese Religion in the Early 20th Century (Gendai Shiryo Publishing, 2001); "Japanese Buddhism and Ethnicity in the United States: Focusing on the Buddhist Community in America (BCA)" Modern Buddhism 9 (2002); Buddhism at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Imamura Yemyō and Buddhist Social Ethics, in Hawaii at the Crossroads of the US and Japan before the Pacific War (ed. JT Davidann, University of Hawaii Press, 2008); Issei Buddhism in the Americas (co-edited with Duncan Ryūken Williams, University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).

(Updated December 2009)

Part-time lecturer at Kwansei Gakuin University. PhD in sociology. Research fields include overseas Chinese studies and Chinese women's history.
Her major research papers include "Overseas Chinese without Chinatown: The transformation and dynamism of the overseas Chinese community in Osaka" (doctoral thesis), "Social transformation, women and family in postwar Taiwan" and "Transformation of Chinese Christian churches in Osaka."

Doctor of Literature (American Literature). Aims to interpret various aspects of society by reading texts and their surroundings. Reads works by Asian American authors, particularly Japanese American authors. Major research results include co-authored works such as For Those Who Learn Asian American Literature (Sekai Shisosha, 2011) and co-authored Rethinking Ethnicity (Migration Research Group, Kwansei Gakuin University Press, 2012).

(Updated June 2013)

Former chairman of the Migration Research Group. Ph.D. in sociology. Professor emeritus at Kwansei Gakuin University. Specializes in sociology (community theory). Researches issues facing Japanese Americans from a community perspective. Major publications include Urban Community and Ethnicity (1997, Minerva Shobo), Sociology of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (co-edited, 3 volumes, 1999, Showado), and Sociology of Community Life (2001, Kwansei Gakuin University Press).

(Updated September 2012)