Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan

Kimiko Tanaka is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University. She has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University. She has published articles on Japan to discuss aging, families, culture, rural depopulation, and gender. Her recent publication, Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, provides the important insight that words such as "rural" and "depopulation" do not simply equate with negative outcomes for the elderly in rural Japan.Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and ten books in Springer's Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, Happiness, Death, Aging and asecond edition of the Parenting book.

田中君子是詹姆斯麥迪遜大學社會學與人類學系的社會學教授。她在密西根州立大學獲得社會學碩士和博士學位。她發表了有關日本的文章，討論老齡化、家庭、文化、農村人口減少和性別等議題。她最近的出版物《日本農村社區的成功老齡化》提供了重要的見解，指出「農村」和「人口減少」等詞彙並不僅僅等同於日本農村老年人的負面結果。海萊恩·塞林曾是美國麻薩諸塞州安普斯特的漢普夏學院的教職員和科學圖書館員，並於2012年退休。她是《非西方文化科學、技術與醫學史百科全書》（第三版，Springer 2016）的編輯，以及Springer的《跨文化科學》系列中十本書的編輯，這些書籍涵蓋了天文學、數學、醫學、自然、分娩、育兒、幸福、死亡、老齡化以及育兒書的第二版。