¹ Kobayashi Mika is a photography scholar and critic and photography exhibit curator. She has worked on Japanese photography exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. She has been an active collaborator on the Women of Japan project.

² Rebecca Jennison is a professor at Kyoto Seika University. In 2000, she curated a joint exhibit of Women En Large and Familiar Men at Kyoto Seika's Gallery Fleur. She is an active collaborator and advisor on the Women of Japan project and an Asia-Pacific Journal associate.

³ Gender: Beyond Memory – The Works of Contemporary Women Artists featured eleven artists from around the world and resulted in record-breaking attendance levels for the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

⁴ Kasahara Michiko has been a chief curator of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since 2006. She has curated many exhibitions since 1989, such as “Gender Beyond Memory” in 1996, “Love's Body” in 1998, and “On Your Body, Contemporary Japanese Photography” in 2008. She was a commissioner of the Japanese pavilion in the Venice Biennale in 2005.

⁵ Kotani Mari is an independent Japanese scholar, best known for Evangelion as the Immaculate Virgin and Joseijou muishiki: techno-gynesis josei SF-ron josetsu (Techno-Gynesis: The Political Unconscious of Feminist Science Fiction). She has been an active collaborator on the Women of Japan project.

⁶ Hagiwara Hiroko is a professor in visual cultural studies and critical women's studies at Osaka Prefecture University. She has authored several books on gender and racial politics in visual cultures of UK and Japan. Her recent publications include ‘Return to an Unknown Land: Sanae Takahata's Quest for Self, ‘n. paradoxa, vol.20, 2007. She has been an active collaborator and advisor on the Women of Japan project.

⁷ Aya Tomoko runs an independent art gallery in Osaka specializing in Contemporary Japanese Photography, including the work of Ishiuchi Miyako and Komatsubara Midori.

⁸ Kasuya Akiko was a curator at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and is currently an Associate Professor at Kyoto City University for the Arts. She curated “Recent Works 26 – Laurie Toby Edison: Meditations on the Body” in 2001, and “A Second Talk: Contemporary Art from Korea and Japan” in 2002 at the National Museum of Art, Osaka.

⁹ Yoshioka Hiroshi is Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Kyoto University. He edited the journal Diatxt., the critical quarterly of the Kyoto Art Center, and headed the editorial board of the Japanese Association of Semiotic Studies. He was the general director of the Kyoto Biennale in 2003 and the Ogaki Biennale in 2006.

¹⁰ The full Wikipedia article on “body image” can be found here.

¹¹ For one view of how this affects specifically African American girls, see Kiri Davis's short film “A Girl Like Me”.

¹² More information about Taihen can be found here.