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focuses on the social history of modern Japan, particularly from the perspective of the regions, and on the maritime history of nineteenth-century Japan.
Neil Evans is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Planning, School of the Built Environment, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He obtained his PhD from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. His research interests and publications have been concerned with community participation in urban regeneration within Japan, planning for sustainable waste management and the concept of territorial governance in relation to European spatial planning.
Thomas Feldhoff is Academic Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, and he gained his PhD and habilitation from the University of Duisburg-Essen. With an academic background in human geography and East Asian area studies, his research focus is on processes of demographic ageing and shrinking and their consequences with regard to regional development, planning and policy-making. He received the 2006 JaDe Award of the Association for the Promotion of Japanese-German Cultural Relations and a 2008 Book Prize of the European Association for Japanese Studies for his publication Bau-Lobbyismus in Japan: Institutionelle Grundlagen – Akteure - Raumwirksamkeit (Dortmunder Vertrieb für Bau- und Planungsliteratur 2005).
Christopher P. Hood is Director of the Cardiff Japanese Studies Centre at Cardiff University. His research interests are the Shinkansen and disaster responses in Japan. His publications include: Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Japanese and Global Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash (Routledge 2011), Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan (Routledge 2006), ‘From polling station to political station? Politics and the shinkansen’ (Japan Forum, 2006), Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone’s Legacy (Routledge 2001) and The Politics of Modern Japan (editor 4 volumes, Routledge 2008).