Shinnosuke Takahashi teaches at Monash University in Australia. He has written and edited books and articles on the subjects related to the history and present of the social struggles in post-WWII Okinawa, Japan in Asia and the globalized world, and transpacific history. Born and raised in Yokohama, a port city west of Tokyo, Shin studied Politics and Government Studies at Chuo University before moving to Australia for his doctoral research at the Australian National University. Prior to Monash, Shin had taught at Victoria University of Wellington, Kobe University and Kumamoto University.
Yenbo Kuo is a PhD candidate at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University’s Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies. He specializes in the history of the U.S. military presence in Taiwan during the Cold War, exploring the intersections of imperial power, legal status, gender, and social dynamics. He has contributed articles to several journals, including Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, the Bulletin of Academia Historica, and the Journal of Geographical Science.
Yi-hung Liu (PhD, American Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) is an independent scholar and translator. In addition to publishing work in American Quarterly and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, she recently completed the 2025 traditional Chinese translation of Edward W. Said’s seminal work, The Question of Palestine.
Joshua Rickard is a social anthropologist, photographer and associate professor at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto in Japan. His research interests include migration, immobility, and how the meaning of community and identity are rearticulated by people in transitory situations. He has worked extensively researching in Palestinian communities since 2007 and also has projects in Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. His published works include The Fragmentation of Palestine, I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury.
Chiyo Wakabayashi teaches at Okinawa University, Naha, Okinawa. Mainland-descent living in Okinawa. Wakabayashi’s research and teaching focus on contemporary history of Okinawa, culture and politics in Okinawa-Japan-East Asia-US relations, twentieth-century East Asian and international history. Her publishing works include Jeeps and Dust: The Political Society of Okinawa under U.S. Occupation and the Cold War in East Asia 1945-1950, Yushisha (Tokyo), 2015.
Kozue Uehara is a faculty at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She is originally from Okinawa Island where she participated in the popular movement against militarization. Her research focuses on the anti-developmentalist struggle in Kin Bay and on the direct action against U.S. military training in Kisenbaru in central Okinawa. Her publishing works include Hitoribitori ga daihyo: Sakihara Seishu no sengoshi o tadoru (Everyone is a Representative: Tracing the Postwar Personal History of Sakihara Seishu) and Kyodo no Chikara: 1970-80nendai no Kin-wan Toso to sono shiso (Power of the Commons: 1970-80s Kin Bay Struggle and Its Philosophy of Survival). She is a member of the editorial committee of Ekkyo Hiroba (Commons Beyond Borders), a cultural and political magazine based in Okinawa.