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.

ROGER BUCKLEY is author of The United States in the Asia-Pacific Since 1945. He teaches in Tokyo and Oxford.

TODD CROWELL has been a foreign correspondent in Asia since moving to Hong Kong in 1987 to work for Asiaweek, where he spent 14 years.
After a break in his home near Seattle, he moved to Thailand in 2006 to work as an editor for Asia Times Online, and since 2007 he has been Japan correspondent for Hong Kong-based online magazine Asia Sentinel and a group of energy newsletters.
JOHN R. HARRIS is a speechwriter and freelance journalist who lives deep in a forest 75 km due southeast of the FCCJ.

STEVE McCLURE, formerly Billboard magazine’s Asia bureau chief, now publishes McClure’s Asia Music News, an online newsletter and Web site focusing on news from the Japanese and Asian music industries.

MIKE “BUCK” THARP was Tokyo bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal 1976-80, a correspondent with The New York Times Tokyo bureau 1980-81, Tokyo bureau chief of The Far Eastern Economic Review 1981-84 and Tokyo bureau chief
of U.S. News & World Report 1987-90.
In 1989-90 he was president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. He is currently executive editor of the Merced Sun-Star (a Mclatchy Group paper) in California.