Ralph Paprzycki is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He has also taught at Sophia University in Tokyo. Dr Paprzycki's book Interfirm Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry was published in 2005. He obtained his doctorate in economics from the London School of Oriental and Asian Studies. Kyoji Fukao is Professor and Director of the Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. A former Councillor of Hitotsubashi University, he has also served as a Faculty Fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan since 2001 and Chief Research Fellow in the Asian Study Division of the Japan Center of Economic Research since 2004. Professor Fukao coauthored Foreign Direct Investment and the Japanese Economy with Tomofumi Amano in 2004 and has published articles in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, and the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.