Sabine Fruhstuck is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of "Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army" and "Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan", both from UC Press. Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of "Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History" (UC Press) and author of "The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration", among others.