ANDREA GEVURTZ ARAI is interim chair of Korea Studies and assistant professor at The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at The University of Washington, Seattle. She is the coeditor of Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times and Spaces of Possibility: In, Between and Beyond Korea and Japan; she is also the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan.
CHRISTOPHER T. NELSON is a cultural anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Okinawa and the forthcoming When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Okinawa.