Gene Park is a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-2008. Park is currently working on a book that analyzes how a large government system for mobilizing and allocating financial capital, the Fiscal Investment Loan Program, has influenced budget politics and the internal coalitional dynamics within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

His work has appeared in the journals Governance and Asian Survey, and he co-authored an article for the edited volume, The State after Statism (Harvard University Press). Dr. Park received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Japan. He has been a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Policy Research Institute and Sophia University in Tokyo.

Dr. Park completed his Ph.D. in 2007 in political science at University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College.

Joon Young Chung is a reporter at Yonhap News, a Korean news wire service, and has worked in various departments including the national desk, business desk and the North Korea desk for the past 14 years. Recently he has covered Inter-Korean dialogue and the Six-Party talks.

Denise Chu joined Shorenstein APARC in September 2007 as the Stanford China Program Manager. Previously at Stanford, she was the overseas program manager at the Center for East Asian Studies. Prior to joining Stanford, she worked for exchange programs with China, Chile, England, Japan, and Mexico, mainly in the field of international education. She was born in Taiwan where she received her B.A, studied in the U.S. for her M.A. and then received her Ph.D. in international communication from Peking University, in China.

Xiangning Zhang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-2008.

Zhang is the Vice President of PetroChina Foreign Cooperation Administration Department, the Director of Circum-Pacific Council (CPC) and a member of the Committee for the Petroleum Association of China(CAPG).

Zhang received both his bachelors and masters degree from Southwest Petroleum University. He is currently a PhD candidate at Chengdu University of Technology. Since graduation, he has been engaged in oil and gas exploration and development both in China and overseas. From 1983 to 1994, he worked in Liaohe Oil Field and the former Petroleum Industry Ministry of the People's Republic of China. From 1995 to 1998, he worked on overseas projects in Papau New Guinea, Peru and other countries. Since 1999, he has worked in PetroChina Foreign Cooperation Administration Department as director and Vice President.

Soichi Yushina is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-2008.

Yushina joined Japan Patent Office (JPO), government of Japan in 1993 and has been specializing in Intellectual Property (IP) field since then. At JPO, Yushina built his expertise as patent examiner through examination of vast number of applications in chemical field. He has experience in policymaking, law reforming and other legislative works. In 2001, he had assignment at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, where he took part in developing National IP Strategy and IP-related law reforming. In 2004, he was assigned to a position at National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training, where he contributed to development of human resource program in the IP field. His last post was deputy director of Examination Promotion Office in JPO. Yushina received his BS and MS in Engineering of applied chemistry from Sophia University.

Hisashi Kanazashi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he held positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), government of Japan, for about ten years, where he took charge of policymaking. His latest position at METI was as deputy directory in Small and Medium Enterprise Agency. He did his undergraduate study at Tokyo University, in the faculty of Engineering Science.

Natsuki Kamiya is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08 and 2008-09. He works for the Shizuoka Prefectural Government, one of the local governments in Japan. He is interested in immigration policy in California. He graduated from Chuo University in Tokyo, where he majored in law.

Takao Isozaki is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked at the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) for seventeen years. Isozaki's experiences at DBJ included policy-based financing, finance planning and coordination, and human resources management. He was also assigned for a time at the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry.

Isozaki's latest position at the DBJ was as director in the credit analysis department. he completed his undergraduate studies in law at Tokyo University.

Mari Ichinomoto is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08 and 2008-09. She is also an official of the Industrial Recruitment and Location Division, Kumamoto Prefectural Government in Japan, with a mission to promote overseas direct investment into the country. Prior to this position, she was sent to Kumamoto trade promotion office in Singapore as a representative of the Kumamoto Prefectural Government dealing with trade promotion between Asia and Kumamoto. She graduated in foreign studies from Kitakyushu University.