GAVIN BLAIR came to Japan 11 years ago to study and began his writing career working part-time for a Japanese magazine in 2000. Blair now contributes news stories and predominately business-related features to newspapers, Web sites and magazines in the U.K., U.S., Hong Kong, Ireland and Japan.

ROGER BUCKLEY is the author of The United States in the Asia-Pacific Since 1845. He teaches in Tokyo and Oxford.

Tokyo-based journalist CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON (www.globalite.posterous.com) has covered almost every major story in Asia the past 20 years, including the Kobe earthquake, the East Timor church massacre, the invasion of Baghdad, and the Tibetan uprising. He is author of Siamese Dreams, upcoming Japan novel The Women of Wa, and more than 1,000 reports in print and broadcast media worldwide, including the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, MSNBC-TV and National Public Radio.

PETER McGILL was a journalist in Japan for 18 years, mostly for The Observer, and FCCJ president in 1990-91. He now lives in England, where he is writing a book about Japan while freelancing for magazines.

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.

BOB NEFF, who was president of the Club in 1998-99, spent most of his career at BusinessWeek. Now semi-retired, he is the author of Japan’s Hidden Hot Springs, the only English-language guidebook of its type.

ANTHONY ROWLEY has been Tokyo correspondent of The Business Times of Singapore since 1993 and is the Japan-based Field Editor for Oxford Analytica. He has written on the economy and finance in the U.K., Southeast Asia and Japan since 1968 for a variety of publications, including The Times of London and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

JULIAN RYALL is the Japan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.

HENRY SCOTT STOKES is a Tokyo-based freelance journalist, working primarily with Institutional Investor and Alpha, the sister magazine of II, specializing in the hedge-fund industry. He has been a member of the Club since 1964, when he arrived in Japan to open the Financial Times office in Otemachi.