Frank Gibney was born in 1924 and raised in New York City. He graduated from Yale College, in absentia, in 1945. He served in the navy as Lieutenant, USNR, from 1942 to 1946.Through his career, he held the positions of foreign correspondent and associate editor of Time magazine, senior editor of Newsweek, and editor and publisher of Show magazine. Gibney was in charge of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Japanese and East Asian companies from 1966 to 1976 in Tokyo. He was vice chairman, TBS-Britannica, and also vice chairman of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Board of Directors.The author of twelve books, including The Pacific Century; Japan: The Fragile Superpower; and Korea’s Quiet Revolution, Mr. Gibney was president of the Pacific Basin Institute in Santa Barbara, California until his death in spring 2006., Beth Cary is a translator and interpreter based in the San Francisco Bay area. Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, she was educated at Wellesley College and Sophia University (Tokyo). Her father, Otis Cary, served with Frank Gibney as a language officer in the U.S. Navy during World War IIHer published translations include fictional works, such as Inspector Imanishi Investigates (Suna no Utsuwa) by Matsumoto Seich? and A Spring Like Any Other (Itsumo to Onaji Haru) by Tsujii Takashi, and nonfiction works, such as The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Nihon no Inb?: Hawai Oahut? Daisutoraiki no Hikari to Kage) by Duus Masayo, adapted by Peter Duus; and An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context (Bunmei no Seitaishikan) by Umesao Tadao, edited by Harumi Befu.