Terada Yoshirō is an associate professor of Taisho University. Specializing in the sociology of religion, he has published a monograph on Seicho-no-Ie in Taiwan, Kyū shokuminchi ni okeru Nikkei shin shūkyō no juyō: Taiwan seichō no ie no monogurafu  旧植民地における日系新宗教の受容―台湾生長の家のモノグラフ (Acceptance of a Japanese new religion in a former Japanese colony; Harvestsha, 2009), which won the International Institute for Study of Religions prize for junior researchers.