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Setsuko Adachi is an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies at Kogakuin University, Tokyo. She obtained her MA in Comparative Literature from Tokyo University. Her main research interests are identity formation and cultural systems analysis.

Michael Kearney has a PhD in Literary/Critical Theory from the University of Limerick and is an associate professor in The School of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Tokyo. He has published numerous papers and chapters in books that examine cultural constructions and is the editor of From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward. He writes poetry and is the founder of The Symbolic Order: a band that operates at, and examines, the intersections of Image, Sound, and Text.

Lim Lee Ching is an associate professor of literature at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He holds a PhD from the National University of Singapore, and a BA from the University of London. His recent publications include contributions to Global Encounters: Cross-Cultural Representations of Taiwan and American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter. He has published in several journals such as Moving Worlds and The Journal of English and American Studies. Lee Ching is also the founding editor of the Singapore Review of Books.