Japan Echo Web

This website contains both Japan Echo Web and the Chinese-language Yueyang Jujiao: Riben Luntan. These online journals present translations in English and Chinese of essays, commentaries, reviews, dialogues, and interviews by Japanese academics, specialists, and critics. The goal is to present a wide-ranging picture of domestic views of the conditions and the policy landscape in Japan, including the fields of diplomacy, politics, economy, society, culture, and science & technology.

Japan Echo Web and Yueyang Jujiao: Riben Luntan are produced and maintained by The Japan Journal, Ltd. for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. The Japan Journal, Ltd. is solely responsible for the content and management of this website.

The content of this website does not necessarily represent or reflect the views of the Government of Japan or the editorial board members.

The material translated for publication on this website is selected by an editorial board composed of experts in the various fields covered. The current members of the board are:

Editor in chief

TANAKA Akihiko, Ph.D.
Vice President of the University of Tokyo, Professor of International Politics at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

Editorial board members

WATANABE Hirotaka
Completed his doctoral studies in international relations at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Has been a visiting researcher at George Washington University. Served as a minister at the Japanese embassy in France. Is now a professor and director at the Institute of International Relations at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

TAKAHARA Akio
Professor at University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics

IOKIBE Kaoru
Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science

KOJIMA Akira
Member for the Board of Trustees and Adjunct Professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Trustee and Senior Fellow at Japan Center for Economic Research

KOMINE Takao
Professor at Hosei University Graduate School of Regional Policy Design, Senior Fellow at Japan Center for Economic Research

SAKURA Osamu, Ph.D.
Professor at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of the University of Tokyo

AKAIKE Manabu
President of Universal Design Intelligence., Inc., Science and Technology Journalist

HAMANO Yasuki
Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (Media Environmental Studies)

Note: All Japanese names on Japan Echo Web are written in the Japanese Style, with family name first.

[As of July 1, 2011]