asahi.com : AAN Profile - Asia Network

Introduction

	Ruan Wei The author, who was born in China, is an assistant manager of Norinchukin Research Institute Co.
	Lim Hua Sing Born in Malaysia, the author is a professor and deputy director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University.
	Marites Danguilan Vitug The author is editor in chief of Newsbreak, a fortnightly news and current affairs magazine in the Philippines. She contributed this comment to The Asahi Shimbun.
	Han Soosan Han Soosan is a popular literary writer and professor at Sejong University in Seoul.
	Bachtiar Alam The author is the executive director of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Indonesia.
	Bruce Cumings Bruce Cumings teaches history at the University of Chicago and is the author of ``Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American _ East Asian Relations'' (Duke University Press, 1999).
	Reinhard Drifte The author is a professor at Newcastle University in England and specializes in Japanese foreign and security policies.
	Stuart McMillan A writer on international affairs and a fellow in the political science department of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
	Burensain Borjigin Born in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a visiting researcher of Waseda University's Institute of Mongolia.
	Soh Ping Ling A news correspondent with the Chinese Morning Daily (Lianhe Zaobao) in Singapore, a guest researcher with The Asahi Shimbun Asia Network.
	Nakharin Mektrairat Associate professor of political science at Thammasat University in Bangkok.
	Simon Tay Simon Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
	Zhang Xinghe A guest assistant professor at Tohoku University's Center for International Research.
	Kornelius Purba The author is a Jakarta Post staff reporter and former Asahi Shimbun Asia Network guest researcher.
	Glenda M. Gloria Born in the Philippines, the author is a fellow at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
	Siripong Widhayawirot The author is an assistant editor of Thailand's business newspaper Prachachat-turakit, which is owned by Matichon group.
	Cho Yang Uk The author is head of the Institute of Japanese Culture in Seoul.
	Kavi Chongkittavorn The author is executive editor of the Bangkok-based English newspaper The Nation.
	Malou Mangahas The author is a professional lecturer in journalism at University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication.
	Ramesh Thakur Ramesh Thakur is vice rector of the United Nations University.