Current Research on Tokyo and Japan

 

Ted Bestor

Harvard University

bestor@wjh.harvard.edu

                                                                                                          

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Tsukiji research homepage  – research on Tokyo’s wholesale fish market, the largest in the world, where I have been doing fieldwork since 1989

 

Miyamoto-chō research homepage – research on a neighborhood in central Tokyo where I did fieldwork first during 1979-81 and where I continue to follow local community life

 

Tokyo: Culture, Society, and History  – materials on the urban anthropology and social/cultural history of Tokyo

 

Japanese Food Culture – research on cuisine, consumption, and culture in contemporary life

 

Global Sushi – an ongoing project that examines the global reach of Japanese seafood markets, their impact on fishing industries in many parts of the world, and the growing popularity of sushi and other forms of Japanese cuisine internationally

 

Public Culture and Urban Space in Tokyo – a new project in which I am starting to look at the current reconstruction of Tokyo centered on high-rise mega-projects that seek to define new modes of urban living for the 21st century