Purnendra Jain, PhD (1987), Griffith University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia. His research interests include politics and foreign policy of contemporary Japan and the international relations of the Asia Pacific. Author and editor of one dozen books and numerous scholarly articles, his forthcoming edited book with Takashi Inoguchi is Japanese Politics Today (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Brad Williams, Ph.D (2004), Monash University, teaches in the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He has published extensively on Japanese domestic politics and foreign policy.