Morris Low has taught at Monash University, the Australian National University, and is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. His other works include the recently completed The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Science and Technology (forthcoming), as well as special issues of the journals Osiris and History and Anthropology. Shigeru Nakayama taught at the University of Tokyo before becoming Professor at Kanagawa University. A leading historian of Japanese science, his previous publications include Science, Technology and Society in Postwar Japan (1991). Hitoshi Yoshioka has taught at Wakayama University and is currently Professor at Kyushu University. He has published extensively in Japanese, including The Social History of Atomic Energy (1999). This is his first book in English.