Takashi Inoguchi is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Tokyo, and president of the University of Niigata Prefecture. His books include Japanese Politics: An Introduction (TransPacific Press, 2005); (edited with Jean Blondel) Citizens and the State: Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2010); and (edited with Ian Marsh) Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State: Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2011). His website is here