Kerstin Lukner is the managing director of the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr, a joint research and teaching institution of the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Bochum, Germany. Alexandra Sakaki is a research fellow in the Asia division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany.

• 1. Japan’s political trust deficit Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki 2. Party politics, elections and (mis-)trust in Japan Ellis Krauss, Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert J. Pekkanen and Aiji Tanaka 3. Trust deficit: Japanese communities and the challenge of rebuilding Tohoku Daniel P. Aldrich 4. Food safety and consumer trust in post-Fukushima Japan Cornelia Reiher 5. Multiculturalism and trust in Japan: educational policies and schooling practices Gabriele Vogt 6. The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations Caroline Rose and Jan Sykora

Kerstin Lukner is the managing director of the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr, a joint research and teaching institution of the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Bochum, Germany. Alexandra Sakaki is a research fellow in the Asia division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany.

• 1. Japan’s political trust deficit Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki 2. Party politics, elections and (mis-)trust in Japan Ellis Krauss, Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert J. Pekkanen and Aiji Tanaka 3. Trust deficit: Japanese communities and the challenge of rebuilding Tohoku Daniel P. Aldrich 4. Food safety and consumer trust in post-Fukushima Japan Cornelia Reiher 5. Multiculturalism and trust in Japan: educational policies and schooling practices Gabriele Vogt 6. The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations Caroline Rose and Jan Sykora

Kerstin Lukner is the managing director of the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr, a joint research and teaching institution of the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Bochum, Germany. Alexandra Sakaki is a research fellow in the Asia division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany.

• 1. Japan’s political trust deficit Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki 2. Party politics, elections and (mis-)trust in Japan Ellis Krauss, Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert J. Pekkanen and Aiji Tanaka 3. Trust deficit: Japanese communities and the challenge of rebuilding Tohoku Daniel P. Aldrich 4. Food safety and consumer trust in post-Fukushima Japan Cornelia Reiher 5. Multiculturalism and trust in Japan: educational policies and schooling practices Gabriele Vogt 6. The trust deficit in Sino-Japanese relations Caroline Rose and Jan Sykora