J. A. A. Stockwin is Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford and Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. Between 1964 and 1981 he taught at the Australian National University in Canberra, and he has spent several periods of research at Japanese universities. He is author of "The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism" (1968), editor of "Japan and Australia in the Seventies" (1972), joint author of "Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan" (1988) and translator of "The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System," by Junji Banno (1992).