TETSUO ABO Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Economics, Teikyo UniversitySAYEEDA BANO Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Waikato, New ZealandDIETER BESCHORNER Deputy Head of the Department of Business Planning, University of UlmNOBUYUKI CHIKUDATE Assistant Professor at the School of Business Administration, Asia University TokyoZAHIRUDDIN GHAZALI Lecturer at the School of Finance and Banking, University Utara, MalaysiaHARUKIYO HASEGAWA Senior Lecturer at the School of East Asian Studies, University of SheffieldMARTIN HEMMERT Lecturer in Business Administration, University of EssenTADAMASA IMAGUCHI Professor in the Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, JapanULRICH JÜRGENS Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität, BerlinAKIRA KURODA Professor at the Toyohashi Sozo College, JapanXINJIAN LI Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Business and Commerce of Keio University, JapanHENDRIK MEYER-OHLE Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies, National University of SingaporeMOHAMAD HANAPI MOHAMAD Associate Professor at the School of Management, University Utara, MalaysiaROMDEJ PHISALAPHONG PhD Student at Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University RotterdamFRED ROBINS Researcher at The Graduate School of Management, University of AdelaideKENJI SUZUKI Assistant Professor at the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of EconomicsTHORAYA YOUNES PhD Student atthe University of Ulm, Germany