Voting for new members of ASCJ took place at the Business Meeting held during the Thirteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan in June 2009. Four new members were approved. Elections will be held at the Business Meeting at the Fourteenth Asian Studies Conference in June 2010.

Yoshiko Ashiwa
Professor of Anthropology, Hitotsubashi University
y.ashiwa[at]srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

James Baxter
Professor. J. F. Oberlin University
baxter[at]gmail.com
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Mark Caprio,
Professor of Modern Korean History, Rikkyo University
caprio[at]rikkyo.ne.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

John T. Dorsey
Professor of English, Rikkyo University
[ASCJ Treasurer]
dorsey[at]rikkyo.ac.jp
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 22, 2008.]

James Farrer
Associate Professor of Sociology, Sophia University
j-farrer[at]sophia.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Katalin Ferber
Professor of Comparative Economic History and Finance Europe-Japan
School of International and Liberal Studies (SILS), Waseda University
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 22, 2008.]

Curtis Anderson Gayle
Associate Professor of modern Japanese History, Japan Women's University
cagayle5[at]gmail.com
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Thomas Gill
Professor of Social Anthropology, Meiji Gakuin University
gill[at]k.meijigakuin.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Linda Grove
Professor of Chinese History and Vice President for Academic Exchange, Sophia University
l-grove[at]sophia.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Koichiro Matsuda
Professor of Japanese Political Thought, Rikkyo University
[ASCJ Vice President]
kmatsuda[at]rikkyo.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Glenda S. Roberts
Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology, Waseda University
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 22, 2008.]

Sven Saaler
Associate Professor of modern Japanese History, Sophia University
saaler[at]sophia.ac.jp
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Patricia Sippel
Professor of Japan Studies, Toyo Eiwa University
psippel[at]toyoeiwa.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

M. William Steele
Professor of Modern Japanese History, International Christian University
[ASCJ Vice President]
steele[at]icu.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

David Wank
Professor of Sociology, Sophia University
d-wank[at]sophia.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, International Christian University
whitelaw[at]icu.ac.jp
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Michael Watson
Professor of Japanese Literature, Meiji Gakuin University
[ASCJ President, Web Editor]
watson[at]k.meijigakuin.ac.jp
[Re-elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 21, 2009.]

Angela Yiu
Professor of Literature, Sophia University
a-yiu[at]sophia.ac.jp
[Elected for a two-year term of office beginning June 22, 2008.]