CONTRIBUTORS Reiko Abe Auestad Alari Allik Araki Hiroshi Jørn Borup

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1 CONTRIBUTORS Reiko Abe Auestad is Professor at University of Oslo, where she teaches modern and contemporary Japanese literature. Her areas of interest include modern Japanese literature, cultural and social developments in contemporary Japan. Although her doctoral thesis was on Natsume Sōseki (Rereading Sōseki: Three Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Novels, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998), she has written on various other modern authors such as Nakano Shigeharu, Ogino Anna, Murakami Haruki, and Kirino Natsuo. She is currently working on a selection of modern and contemporary Japanese novels with a focus on affect. She has also published essays on the family politics and welfare system in Japan and Norway from a comparative perspective ( Long-Term Care Insurance, marketization and the quality of care, Japan Forum 2010). Alari Allik specializes in Classical Japanese Literature and Philosophy, and he is a Ph.D. candidate and also teaches at Tallinn University, Estonia. He is currently working on the self writing and death in Hosshinshū and Hōjōki. His publications in English include Setsuwa and Self Writing: Witnessing Death in Hosshinshū, Japanese Studies, vol. 32 (2012); and Practicing Time: Time and Practice in Deleuze and Dōgen, in James W. Heisig and Rein Raud, eds., Classical Japanese Philosophy, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Araki Hiroshi is Professor at Nichibunken. He studied Japanese Literature at Kyoto University, and taught at Aichi Prefectural University, Osaka University, etc., before joining Nichibunken. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in His current research interest is in expressions in classical Japanese literature and interdisciplinary analysis of their creation, as well as in international developments and methodologies in the study of Japanese literature. At Nichibunken he is organizing the team research project Dreams and Representation: Media, History and Culture. He is the author of Setsuwashū no kōsō to ishō: Konjaku monogatarishū no seiritsu to zengo (Contexture and Design of the Collection of Narrative Tales: Study on the Konjaku Tales), Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2012; and Nihon bungaku niju no kao (Japanese Literature Double Visages), Osaka University Press, Jørn Borup is Associate Professor at Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. from the same university in Having a research focus on the Japanese contemporary society, he identifies himself as a specialist of religious studies, and from 2009 to 2012 served as Director of the Center for Contemporary Religion at the University. His recent publications include Easternization of the East?: Zen and Spirituality as Distinct Cultural Narratives in Japan, Journal of Global Buddhism, 2014; and Contemporary Buddhist Priests and Clergy, in The Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions, Leiden: Brill,

2 Frederick R. Dickinson is Professor of Japanese History at the University of Pennsylvania (U.S.). Born in Tokyo and raised in Kanazawa and Kyoto, Japan, he received an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in History from Yale University and also holds an M.A. in International Politics from Kyoto University (1986). He is the author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, , Harvard University Asia Center, 1999; Taishō tennō (Taishō Emperor), Kyoto: Minerva Shobō, 2009; and World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, , Cambridge University Press, He is currently working on a global history of modern Japan. Patricia Fister is Professor at Nichibunken. Specializing in Japanese Art History and holding a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, she has developed her academic career in Japan since 1991, and her research has had a unique focus on Japanese women artists of the Edo period and the art connected with Japan s imperial Buddhist convents. She is the author of Art by Buddhist Nuns: Treasures from the Imperial Convents of Japan, New York: Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, 2003; and Japanese Women Artists, , Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art/Harper & Row, Bart Gaens is Senior Research Fellow in the Global Security Research Program at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Born in Belgium, he graduated from the University of Leuven. He studied early modern Japanese business history and obtained his Ph.D. from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Japan). More recently his research focus shifted to more contemporary studies on East Asian regionalism and Japan in the Asian regional context. He published in 2013: Japan s troublesome territory: The entangled history of the three island disputes complicates finding a solution to any of them, FIIA Comment; and Political change in Myanmar: Filtering the murky waters of disciplined democracy, FIIA Working Paper 78. Ulf Hedetoft is Dean of Humanities and Professor of International Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He directed the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark between 2001 and Between 2008 and 2011 he was founding chair of Nordic Migration Research. He is currently editor-in-chief of Social Inclusion. Research interests include European nationalism in comparative perspective, international migration, and political cultures in Europe and North America. His list of scholarly publications comprises about 200 items. Work in recent years includes contributions to The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Russia and Globalization (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), Nations and Nationalism (ABC-CLIO, 2008), Holy Nations and Global Identities (Brill, 2009), Empires and Autonomy (University of British Columbia Press, 2009), The Multiculturalism Backlash (Routledge, 2010), and Challenging Multiculturalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). 254

3 Imaizumi Yoshiko is Senior Research Fellow at the Meiji Shrine Research Institute in Tokyo. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, specializing in Comparative Literature and Culture, she worked as a magazine editor; then took a program of Shinto studies at Kokugakuin University and obtained a Shinto priest s diploma. She received her Ph.D. from SOAS, University of London, in 2007, and recently published Sacred Space in the Modern City: The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, , from Brill. Her publications in Japanese include: Meiji Jingū: Sengo fukkō no kiseki, Tokyo: Kajima Shuppankai, 2008; Meiji Jingū: Dentō o tsukutta dai purojekuto, Tokyo: Shinchōsha, Iwashita Tetsunori is Professor in Japanese History at Meikai Universiry, Japan. He studied at Aoyama Gakuin University. He is particularly well known for his studies on the information flow in the Japanese early modern society and how the information and knowledge on foreign cultures worked to introduce modernization processes into Edo Period Japan. Among his major publications are: Edo no kaigai jōhō nettowāku (Networks of Overseas Information in Edo), Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2006; and Yokoku sarete ita Perī raikō to bakumatsu jōhō sensō (Perry s Arrival Foreseen and the Information Wars in Bakumatsu Japan), Tokyo: Yōsensha, Komatsu Kazuhiko is Director-General of Nichibunken. He studied Anthropology and Folklore, and holds an M.A. degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He joined Nichibunken in 1997 after long teaching experiences at Osaka University. His main interest has been in the comparative research on Asian folk religions, and his studies on Japanese yōkai (monstrous beings) are particularly well known. Among his major works are Hyakki yagyō emaki no nazo (The Mystery of Night Procession of the Hundred Demons), Tokyo: Shūeisha, 2008; Izanagi-ryū no kenkyū (Studies of Izanagi-ryū), Tokyo: Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, He was awarded a Purple Ribbon Medal (Shijuhōshō) in Gunilla Lindberg-Wada obtained her Ph.D. on Genji Monogatari at Stockholm University in 1983, and has served, since 1990, as Chair Professor of Japanese Studies at the University s Department of Oriental Languages. Between 1996 and 2001 she was Director of the Department. She directed for ten years from 1996 a multidisciplinary research project Literature and Literary History in Global Contexts funded by the Swedish Research Council, and as a result five volumes of articles in English, each focusing on a special complex of questions in connection with the global history of literature, were published in 2006 (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter). She is the first and current Chair of the Scholarship Foundation for Studies of the Japanese Society founded by the Ministry of Finance of Sweden in Liu Jianhui is Professor at Nichibunken and specializes in Comparative Literature and Culture between Japan and China. He studied at Liaoning University in China, then Kobe University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1990, and taught at Nankai University and Peking University 255

4 in China before joining Nichibunken in His current interest is in the image of others and old colonial culture. His major works include: Nitchū nihyaku-nen: Sasaeau kindai (Two Hundred Years of Sino-Japan Relations), Tokyo: Takeda Random House Japan, 2012; and Mato Shanghai: Nihon chishikijin no kindai taiken (Seduction and Repulsion: Shanghai in the Japanese Imagination), Tokyo: Kōdansha, Yoichi Nagashima is Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Having originally studied Russian Literature, he received Ph.D. in Japanese Literature in 1982 from the University of Copenhagen. While known as a specialist of Mori Ōgai, he has been keenly interested in the history of cultural relations between Denmark and Japan, and active in studies based on Danish and Japanese primary sources. His important works include: De danskjapanskekulturelleforbindelser (Cultural Relations between Denmark and Japan), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, University of Copenhagen, 2003; Mori Ōgai: Bunka no hon yakusha (Mori Ōgai: A Translator of Cultures), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, Rein Raud is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Helsinki and a Distinguished Research Fellow in Cultural Theory at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. Born in Estonia, he graduated from St. Petersburg University, Japanese Studies Department, and obtained his Ph.D. in Literary Theory from the University of Helsinki in He has published widely on Japanese literature and philosophy and translated classical Japanese literature into Estonian, including an anthology of poems Heart is the Only Flower and the collection of poetry by Ikkyū entitled Crazy Cloud published by Tallinn University Press. He held the office of Rector of Tallinn University from 2006 to 2011, and currently serves as President of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS). Marie H. Roesgaard is Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She finished the Ph.D. program in 1994 at East Asian Institute, University of Aarhus, with her dissertation Rhetoric in Japanese Education Reform An Analysis of the 1980s. Her studies remain focusing on the Japanese education, and her recent publications include: The Ideal Citizen, Globalization, and the Japanese Response: Risk, Gate-keeping and Moral Education in Japan, in D. Blake Willis and J. Rappleye, eds., Reimagining Japanese Education: Borders, Transfers, Circulations and the Comparative, Oxford Studies in Comparative Education, Symposium Books, Aike P. Rots is affiliated with the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, where he recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation on ideological and institutional developments in Shinto today, entitled Forests of the Gods: Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Contemporary Japan. He has a background in both Japanese studies and the study of religion, and has conducted research on religion in modern and contemporary Japan. 256

5 In addition, he is interested in a variety of theoretical topics, such as the configuration of the categories religion, sacred and secular in different cultural and political contexts. His recent publications include Ambigious Identities: Negotiating Christianity and Japaneseness, in John K. Nelson and Inken Prohl, eds., Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions, Leiden: Brill, Laeticia Söderman is a graduate student of East Asian studies at the University of Helsinki. She obtained her M.A. in East Asian studies from the University of Helsinki in 2010, and is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation on Shin Buddhist thought and practice in Medieval Japan supported by the Shinshū Ōtani-ha (Higashi Honganji) Fellowship for Pure Land Studies. Her main research interests are how religious sensibilities and experiences are expressed in Medieval Japanese texts and which textual strategies are used to express them. Her other publications include Writing as Participation: Textual Streams and Argumentative Patterns in Shinran s Kyōgyōshinshō, in James W. Heisig and Rein Raud, eds., Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 7, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Noriko Takei-Thunman is since February 2013 Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg, where she served as the head of the Japanese Division from the mid 1990s. Born in Tokyo, she graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature at The University of Tokyo. After one year s study of French language in Paris, she moved to Sweden and obtained her Ph.D. in Japanology at the University of Stockholm in Her research field is modern literature (among others Mishima Yukio) and narratology. She has also worked in the field of translation studies. Since 1995, she has been working with linked haikai poetry and overseas modern haiku. Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo. Born in the Netherlands, he received his Ph.D. from Leiden University in 1996, and his thesis was published as Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise, CNWS, He has since published widely in the field of Japan s history of religion, with a focus on shrines and Shinto. A recent publication on this topic is A New History of Shinto (co-authored with John Breen), Wiley Blackwell, He is also interested in the intellectual history of Tokugawa Japan. Recent publications in this area are Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period (co-edited with Anna Beerens), Brill, 2012; and Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard by an Edo Samurai (co-edited with Kate W. Nakai), Columbia University Press,