Harold Bolitho is Professor of Japanese History at Harvard University. Kent E. Calder is Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (on leave) and Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Martin Collcutt is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.

Albert M. Craig is Harvard-Yenching Professor of History at Harvard University. John W. Dower is Elting Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Norma M. Field is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Andrew Gordon is Professor of History at Harvard University. Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University.

Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. John M. Rosenfield is Abby Aldreich Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Frank K. Upham is Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.