JOHN BOYD covers technology and business news and events in Japan and Asia and strings for several magazines, including IEEE Spectrum, FPD Today and New York Stock Exchange Magazine. He welcomes new assignment queries: boyd@gol.com.

ANDRONIKI CHRISTODOULOU is a Greek-born photographer who has been based in Tokyo since December 2004, working freelance for international magazines and newspapers such as BusinessWeek, De Volkskrant, The Daily Telegraph, The Irish Times and Kathimerini, focusing mainly on Japanese culture and lifestyle. For more info: www.androniki.com

DANIELLE DEMETRIOU is a British freelance writer and photographer based in Tokyo. For seven years she worked as a news reporter in London for The Independent, Evening Standard and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Freelancing since 2005, she writes travel, lifestyle and news features for a number of newspapers and magazines.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF has been a twice-weekly columnist for The New York Times since 2001 and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He served as the Times’ Tokyo bureau chief in the late 1990s and was a Club member during that time.

GAVAN McCORMACK is emeritus professor at Australian National University and coordinator of the (online) Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. His most recent book is Client State: Japan in the American Embrace (2007 in English, 2008 in Japanese, Chinese and Korean).

DAVID McNEILL writes for The Irish Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Independent. He teaches a course on journalism at Sophia University and is a coordinator of Japan Focus: www.japanfocus.org.

ROBERT MICHAEL POOLE is a Tokyo-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to The Japan Times. He is also CEO of SomethingDrastic Artist Management, which specializes in promoting Asian music internationally.

JULIAN RYALL is the Japan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.

DAN SLATER moved to Tokyo in February 2008 to launch the FinanceAsia Japan supplement. He has been in Asia since 1995, first studying Chinese in Shanghai before taking his first journalism job in Hong Kong in 1998.