INOUE Nobutaka is a professor at Kokugakuin University, and the director of the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics at Kokugakuin University. He has been the president of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies since 2011. His recent publications in English include “Religious Education in Contemporary Japan” (Religion Compass, 3/4, Blackwell, 2009), and “Globalization and Religion: The Cases of Japan and Korea” (in Religion, Globalization, and Culture, Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman, eds., Brill, 2007).