Yasuko Takezawa is Professor at the Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University, and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan.

Faye V. Harrison is Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Akio Tanabe is Specially Appointed Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.