interests include multidimensional measures of well-being, quality of life in old age, the capability approach, eResearch, and rural Japan. Recent publications include ‘Development of a Platform Dedicated to Collaboration in the Social Sciences’ (with Raynald Jadoul) in the CELDA 2007 proceedings, as well as articles on feminism and women’s issues in Japan. Sachie Mizohata holds a PhD in sociology from Paris Descartes University and two MAs, one in social service administration from the University of Chicago and the other in sociology from Loyola University Chicago.
Naofumi Nakamura is Professor in the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo and gained his PhD from Ky
sh University. He is the author of several publications in the economic and business history of Japan, including Nihon Testud
-gy no Keisei (The Formation of the Japanese Railway Industry, Nihon Keizai Hyronsha 1998) and Chih karano Sangy-kakumei (The Japanese Industrial Revolution from a Local Perspective, Nagoya University Press 2010).
Ken Ohori is Research Associate at the Institute of Social Science (ISS) at the University of Tokyo. He has an MS from the University of Tokyo and specializes in regional and community studies. His research focuses in particular on the revitalization of Japanese local communities. He is a member of ISS’s project ‘The Social Sciences of Hope’ and is the coauthor of Kibgaku 2 & 3 (Studies of Hope vols. 2 & 3, edited by ISS, Y. Genda and N. Nakamura, University of Tokyo Press 2009).
Philip Seaton is Associate Professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University. He gained his DPhil from the University of Sussex. His research interests include World War II history and memory in Japan, as well as local history and tourism in Hokkaido. He is the author of Japan’s Contested War Memories: the ‘memory rifts’ in historical consciousness of World War II (Routledge 2007) and the translator of My Father’s Dying Wish: Legacies of War Guilt in a Japanese Family (Paulownia Press 2009). He was awarded the Daiwa Japan Forum Prize in 2006 for his article ‘Reporting the 2001