Satoshi Yokoyama is a professor in the Department of Geography, the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University. His research interests lie in the field of human–nature interactions, particularly in land-use change, natural resource use, and livelihood change. One of his most recent research interests is traditional fermented foods in the Himalayas and Southeast Asia region. He is an author or editor of six books and more than 90 academic book chapters and research articles. He was a visiting scholar at the East-West Center, U.S.A., from 2005 to 2006; a visiting associate professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan, in 2011; and a visiting professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, from 2013 to 2014.
Jun Matsumoto is the director of the Research Center for Climatology and a professor in the Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is also affiliated with the Ocean–Atmosphere–Land Processes Research (DCOP), the Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) as a visiting principal scientist and an affiliate professor in the Department of Geology and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, USA. His research interests are global and regional climate, in particular, Asian and global monsoon climate, and its influence on human society. He has served as the chair of the Commission on Climatology (CoC) of the International Geographical Union since 2016. He is also the chief editor for the Human–Geoscience Section, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS), Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU).
Hitoshi Araki is a professor of geography and an associate dean of the College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His research interests are economic geography, the agri-food system, and food safety. He is a founder of Japan–Korea–China Joint Conference of Geography and also a Steering Committee member of the conference (2006–Present). He has published several books in the field of food geography and is now an editorial board member of the Japanese Journal of Human Geography.