Notes on Contributors

Yoshio Arai is Emeritus Professor of Kamazawa University, in Japan. He has visited Stratford-upon-Avon many times since 1972. He participated in at least four seminars held by the International Shakespeare Association at the Shakespeare Institute and attended the World Shakespeare Congress in Los Angeles. He was Director and Representative of Japan’s branch of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre. He has published many books in Japanese including Shakespeare Productions in England and Japan (1972), English Plays on Screen (1982), Public Readings of All the Works of Shakespeare (1993), English Literature on Screen (1996) and was Editor in Chief of A Globe Shakespeare Encyclopedia (2003). Among his Articles in English are “Kurosawa and Shakespeare: The World of Ran” (1987); “Kurosawa’s Three Shakespeare Films” (1997); “Gielgud and Wilde” (1999); “The Reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe and Japan” (2000); and “Henry VI in Japan” (2001). He has recently published Zen in English Culture, Hokuseido Press; and Speech in Action: ̄Reading and Speaking in Public, by Eichosha, Spring 2005. He became Emeritus Professor at Komazawa University in June 2005.