Akira Hayami Editor

Akira Hayami is Professor of Economics at Reitaku University, having previously held positions at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and Keio University. His previous publications include The Historical Demography of Pre-Modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press, 2001). Osamu Saitô is Professor of Japanese and Asian Economics, and Director at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. His previous publications include Asian Population History (OUP 2001) and Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth (Co-edited with T. Bengtsson, OUP 2000). Ronald P. Toby is Professor of History at the Department of History, University of Illinois. He has previously held visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and Keio University, and has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous publications include State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton University Press, 1984).