Takashi Shiraishi is Vice President and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan and the author or editor of many books, including three award-winning books. Among his English-language books are An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912–1926 and After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia.

Discloses an appealing and unknown angle of Southeast Asian studies to non-Japanese readers.... A most engaging contribution to the field.(Pacific Affairs)

Takashi Shiraishi is Vice President and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan and the author or editor of many books, including three award-winning books. Among his English-language books are An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912–1926 and After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia.

Discloses an appealing and unknown angle of Southeast Asian studies to non-Japanese readers.... A most engaging contribution to the field.(Pacific Affairs)

Takashi Shiraishi is Vice President and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan and the author or editor of many books, including three award-winning books. Among his English-language books are An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912–1926 and After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia.

Discloses an appealing and unknown angle of Southeast Asian studies to non-Japanese readers.... A most engaging contribution to the field.(Pacific Affairs)