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textbook and Yasukuni Shrine controversies: Japanese war memory and commemoration in the British media’(Japan Forum, 2005).
Yoko Sellek is an affiliate of the White Rose East Asia Centre at the University of Sheffield. She was Lecturer in International Sociology and Japanese Studies at Sheffield’s School of East Asian studies between 1990 and 2005. She specialises in international migration and focuses on Japan. Her publications include Migrant Labour in Japan, (Palgrave 2001), ‘Migration and the Nation-State: Structural Explanations for Emigration from Okinawa’, in G.D. Hook and R. Siddle (eds), Japan and Okinawa, Structure and Subjectivity (Routledge 2003), and ‘Foreign Migration into Contemporary Japan under Globalisation’, in H. Hasegawa and G.D. Hook (eds), The Political Economy of Japanese Globalization (Routledge 2001).
Richard Siddle is Professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Sheffield for work on Japan’s indigenous Ainu people. He has continued to research and publish on issues concerning Ainu, Okinawa, minorities and multiculturalism in Japan. Dr Siddle is the author of Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan (Routledge 1996) and coeditor of Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity (Routledge 2003).
Donald C. Wood is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Information Science at Akita University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Tokyo and holds BA and MA degrees in anthropology from Texas A&M University. He is especially interested in cultural change and development as well as center-periphery relations in T
hoku, the economics of health and wellness, and the recent history of Akita. He has been researching the Hachirgata reclaimed land area since 1995 and has been editor of the Research in Economic Anthropology (REA) book series since 2005.
* The principal contributing authors to this chapter are Andrew David, Martin Dusinberre, Neil Evans, Peter Matanle, and Sachie Mizohata.
* The principal contributing authors to this chapter are Philomena de Lima, Neil Evans, and Thomas Feldhoff.