Yasutami Shimomura is Professor Emeritus at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan Hideo Ohashi is Professor of Development Economics and Asian Studies at Senshu University, Japan Shino Watanabe is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Saitama University, Japan Takaaki Kobayashi is an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan ... Read more Izumi Ohno is Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan. She previously served for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the World Bank, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation Wang Ping a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Asian Languages and Cultures, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), Guangzhou, China Juichi Inada now a Professor for International Political Economy at the School of International Economics, Senshu University, Japan Dennis D. Trinidad is Associate Professor and Coordinator for Japanese Studies Programme at De La Salle University, Manila Naohiro Kitano is the former Director General for the East and Central Asia and Caucasus Department at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan Show Less