Professor Ian Neary is the Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, a Faculty Fellow at St Antony's College and University Lecturer in the Politics of Japan. He obtained his doctorate at Sussex University and his principal publications include: Political Protest and Social Control in Pre-war Japan: the origins of Buraku liberation (1989), Intervention and Technological Innovation: Government and the Pharmaceutical Industry in the UK and Japan (with J. Howells, 1995), Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (2002), The State and Politics in Japan (2002) and his latest publication The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan: The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro (Routledge 2009).

Email: ian.neary@sant.ox.ac.uk