Ryoshin Minami, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Kwan S.Kim, Notre Dame University, USA Fumio Makino, Hosei University, Japan Chang-Nam Kim, Dong-A University, South Korea Susumu Hondai, Kobe University, Japan Kazutoshi Nakamura, University of Nagasaki, Japan Xinxin Ma, Kyoto University, Japan Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Meiyan Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Yue Qu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Makoto Takada, Meikai University, Japan Li Xu, Meiji University, Japan Jin Du, Takushoku University, Japan Hiromi Ishizuka, Sanno University, Japan Shanping Yan, Doshisha University, Japan Jinjun Xue, Nagoya University, Japan Wenshu Gao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China