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University, and a PhD from Monash University. His research interests focus on rural Japanese society, and he has published on themes related to rural volunteerism, education, media, culture and revitalization. He is author of A Year with the Local Newspaper: Understanding the Times in Aomori, Japan (University Press of America 2001) and Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen (Brill 2010).
Andrew David works at the US International Trade Commission (ITC). He holds master’s degrees in public affairs and Asian studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. He was a Next Generation Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research, and he also worked at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, The Cadmus Group, and taught English in Japan on the JET Programme. He is the author of two publications on wind turbine manufacturing and trade.
Philomena deLima is Director of the Centre for Remote and Rural Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Philomena graduated in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh and gained her PhD at the University of Stirling. Her research interests include equalities and social justice in rural communities with a particular focus on migration, ethnicity, belonging, poverty, and the impacts of climate change. Her publications include ‘Welcoming Migrants: Migrant Labour in Rural Scotland’ (Social Policy and Society, 2009, with Sharon Wright) and ‘Migrant Workers in Rural Scotland: Going to the Middle of Nowhere’ (International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 2007, with Birgit Jentsch and Brian MacDonald).
Martin Dusinberre is Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford. His first book, Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan, is forthcoming from the University of Hawai’i Press, and he has also published in Japan Forum (2008) and the Journal of Asian Studies (2011). His research