John K. Gillespie has a PhD in Comparative Literature and Culture from Indiana University. He is the President of Gillespie Global Group, an intercultural research, consulting, and training company in New York City, and writes frequently on intercultural business communication and working relationships between Japanese and Westerners. He has authored and edited several books. His major publications include: Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays, with Robert Rolf (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992) and A Bilingual Handbook on Japanese Culture 日本文化を英語で紹介する事典, with Sugiura Yōichi 杉浦洋一 (Natsume-sha, 2004). He has edited the modern Japanese theatre section in the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (Greenwood Press, 2006), and several chapters in books and Journals.