Takeshi Onimaru is a Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University. His research interests cover political history and modern state formation processes in East and Southeast Asia, mainly focusing on colonial surveillance and policing. His major publications include ‘Itinerary, Revolution, and Port Cities: Comparative Study on Maritime Port Cities as Arenas for Asian Revolutionary Movements’, in Shigeru Akita, Hong Liu, and Shiro Momoki (eds.), Changing Dynamics and Mechanisms of Maritime Asia in Comparative Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), ‘Financing Colonial State Building: A Comparative Study of the 19th Century Singapore and Hong Kong’, in Takashi Shiraishi and Tetsushi Sonobe (eds.), Emerging States and Economies: Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead (Springer, 2018), and ‘Living “Underground” in Shanghai: Noulens and the Shanghai Comintern Network’, in Caroline S. Hau and Kasian Tejapira (eds.), Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia (Kyoto University Press and National University of Singapore Press, 2011).

Mark Harrison is a Professor of the History of Medicine at the Faculty of History & Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford. His research interests cover the history of disease and medicine in relation to British imperialism, the military and globalisation. His publications include Contagion: How Commerce has Spread Disease (Yale University Press, 2012); The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Atsuko Naono is a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford. Her research interests cover the history of epidemics and public health in Southeast Asia and the history of medicine and conflict. Her major publications include ‘Going “the Last Mile” to eliminate malaria in Myanmar?’ in Centaurus-Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, 64(1), 2022, ‘Rural Health in Modern Southeast Asia’ in Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith (eds.), Histories of Health in Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century (Indiana University Press, 2014), and State of Vaccination: The Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma (Orient BlackSwan, 2009).

Noriyuki Osada is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University. His research interests cover the history of Burma and the political and social issues in contemporary Myanmar. His major publications include ‘Partitioned lives: Myanmar-born Indians in the Manipur borderland’, in Mayumi Murayama, Sanjoy Hazarika, and Preeti Gill (eds.), Northeast India and Japan: Engagement through Connectivity (Routledge, 2022), Taido suru kokkyo : Eiryo Biruma no imin-mondai to toshi-to chi (The border in embryo: Immigration and urban governance in colonial Rangoon), (Yamakawa Shuppan-sha, 2016), and ‘An embryonic border: Racial discourses and compulsory vaccination for Indian immigrants at ports in colonial Burma, 1870 1937’, Moussons: Recherche en sciences humaines sur l’Asie du Sud-Est, Vol. 17 (2011).

Tomokazu Okada is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University. His research interests cover the French colonial history in Indochina and the history of Vietnam. His major publications include ‘1936 37 nen Hanoi ni okeru r d sha storaiki und (The labour strike movement in Hanoi 1936 37)’, To nan Asia Kenkyu (Southeast Asian studies), Vol. 52(2) (2015), Les villes vietnamiennes au contact de la colonisation. Structuration et restructuration de la soci t urbaine en Indochine fran aise (1887 1945): le cas de Hanoi, Haiphong et Saigon (Vietnamese cities in contact with colonization. Structuring and restructuring of urban society in French Indochina (1887 1945): The case of Hanoi, Haiphong and Saigon), Th se de doctorat, Aix-Marseille Universit (2013), and ‘Furansu shokuminchi teikoku ni okeru gentijin kanri seido Indosina wo jirei ni (The French colonial empire’s native civil service system: The case of Indochina)’, Shigaku-Zasshi (Journal of historical science), 119(6), 2010.

Takashi Shiraishi is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Kumamoto Prefectural University. His research interests cover politics and history in Southeast Asia, international relations in the Asia Pacific, and economic security policies. His major publications include Standing Firm For Indonesia’s Democracy: An Oral History Of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (edited with Nobuhiro Aizawa, Jun Honna, and Wahyu Prasetyawan, World Scientific, 2024), The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926 1941 (National University of Singapore Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2021), and Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change (Boulder, 2021).

Ma. Mercedes G. Planta is a Professor of History at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her research interests cover the history of medicine in colonial Southeast Asia and traditional medicine in the Philippines. Her major publications include Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines, 16th to 19th Century (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), ‘Hansen’s Disease and International Public Health in the Philippines, 1900 1930s’, in Ma. Serena I. Diokno (ed.), Hidden Lives, Concealed Narratives: A History of Leprosy in the Philippines (National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2016), and ‘Spanish Enlightenment, Alessandro Malaspina and the Asian Mediterranean’, in National Historical Commission of the Philippines, Reexamining the History of Philippine-Spanish Relations (National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2016).

Jeong-Ran Kim is a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford. Her research interests cover the history of disease, medicine and war in modern East Asia in a wide context of the Japanese Empire and the Cold War. Her major publications include ‘Medicine in the Korean War (1), (2)’, Korean Journal of Medical History, 32(2 and 3), 2023, ‘Malaria and Colonialism in Korea, c.1876 c.1945’, Social History of Medicine, 29(2), 2016, and ‘The Borderline of “Empire”: Japanese maritime quarantine in Busan c.1876 1910’, Medical History, 57(2), 2013.