PETER MATANLE is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield's School of East Asian Studies, UK. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Niigata University, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era: Re-fabricating Lifetime Employment Relations (RoutledegCurzon 2003) and the founder and general editor of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies.
WIM LUNSING has been conducting fieldwork in Japan since 1986. He is the author of Beyond Common Sense: sexuality and gender in contemporary Japan (Kegan Paul 2001) and numerous papers on related topics. One of his latest projects concerns individual ways of dealing with the changing employment situation in Japan.
