Okuyama Michiaki is a professor at Nanzan University and permanent research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan. His recent works in English include “Religious Problems in Contemporary Japanese Society: Two Cases after the Aum Shinrikyo Affair,” in Religion and Social Problems (ed. Titus Hjelm, Routledge, 2010), and “‘State Shinto’ in Recent Japanese Scholarship” (Monumenta Nipponica 66/1, 2011).