Leslie E. WilliamsE. Leslie Williams began his study of East Asia by working as an ecclesiastical representative in Taiwan for two years. He was then a Japanese Ministry of Education graduate research scholar at Kyûshû University where he studied Edo period hisory for two years. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages at Clemson University. Read More Read Less