Gregory Kasza

Gregory Kasza is Professor of Political Science and East Asian Languages & Cultures at Indiana University. His scholarship analyzes Japanese politics from a broad comparative perspective. His interests include state-society relations, political institutions, war and politics, fascism, and political economy. He is the author of The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945 (1988), and The Conscription Society (1995).

Scott O’Bryan

Scott O’Bryan teaches and writes on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Japan. He received an M.A. from Yale University in East Asian Studies in 1992, and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 2000. He is a member of the Institute of International Strategy, School of Liberal International Affairs, Waseda University, Tokyo Japan. His research interests include the history of social science, consumption and mass consumer culture, environmental history, urban history, and peace history.

George Wilson

George M. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Languages & Cultures at Indiana University, where he taught for 35 years from 1967 to 2002. He served as IU's first dean for International Programs (1975-78) following a stint as director of the East Asian Studies Program (1968-73). Then from 1987 to 2002 he became director of IU's East Asian Studies Center. Wilson is a historian of modern Japan specializing in the Meiji Restoration, and in 2003 and again in 2005 he has taught courses about Japan as a visiting professor at the University of Kentucky.