Atsushi Murakami (村上厚) is the incumbent president of SEA Research and editor of SEAnews. He studied Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, the Bible, and history books at Toko Shoin (東光書院), which had been founded by his father Tokutaro Murakami (村上徳太郎), and since 1968 has served as the secretary general of Toko Shoin. He studied Mandarin at the Chinese Language and Research Centre of The National University of Singapore in 1980/81. He set up SEA Research in 1991 and began publishing SEAnews in 1992. He frequently posts miscellaneous thoughts on the same paper under the pseudonym of Ekoan Hensho (回光庵返照). These miscellaneous thoughts became the basis of his books, "The origin of Christianity," "The origin of Christianity: An Epic Tale of the People of the Covenant," and "Birth of Judaism and eastern propagation." He was born in Ueda city Nagano prefecture (長野県上田市) of Japan, in 1949, grew up in Higashimatsuyama city (東松山市), Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県), and has lived in Singapore since 1980.
