JAPANESE STUDIES
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Carolyn Stevens, Monash University
EDITOR FOR HISTORY
Matthew Stavros, University of Sydney
EDITOR FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Robyn Spence-Brown, Monash University
EDITOR FOR LANGUAGE AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Nerida Jarkey, University of Sydney
EDITOR FOR LITERARY STUDIES
Rebecca Suter, University of Sydney
EDITOR FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE
Peter Mauch, University of Western Sydney
EDITOR FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
Richard Chenhall, University of Melbourne
REVIEWS EDITOR
Peter Mauch, University of Western Sydney
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland; Beatrice Bodart-Bailey, Otsuma University; William Coaldrake,
University of Melbourne; Millie Creighton, The University of British Columbia; Peter Drysdale, Australia–Japan
Research Centre, Australian National University; Norma Field, University of Chicago; Takashi Fujitani, University of
California, San Diego; Sheldon Garon, Princeton University; Carol Gluck, Columbia University; Roger Goodman,
Oxford University; Nanette Gottlieb, University of Queensland; Shuhei Hosokawa, International Research Center
for Japanese Studies; Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash University, Tokyo; Sangjung Kang, Seigakuin University;
Rikki Kersten, Australian National University; Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson, University of New South Wales;
Morris Low, University of Queensland; Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong; Helen Marriott, Monash University;
Gavan McCormack, Australian National University; Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Australian National University;
Leith Morton, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Ross Mouer, Meiji University; Michio Muramatsu, Kyoto University;
Shigeru Nakayama, Kanagawa University; Yoshinobu Ota, Kyushu University; Alan Rix, University of Queensland;
Judith Snodgrass, University of Western Sydney; J. A. A. Stockwin, Oxford University; Yoshio Sugimoto, La Trobe
University; Veronica Taylor, Australian National University; Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University; Shunya Yoshimi,
University of Tokyo; Ko¯saku Yoshino, Sophia University.