Neighborhood Tokyo

Theodore C. Bestor

Neighborhood Tokyo. 1989. Stanford University Press

(1990, Kodansha International, for distribution only in Japan)

• Winner of the Arisawa Prize for Japanese Studies, the American Association University Presses

• Winner of the Robert E. Park Prize for Community and Urban Studies, American Sociological Association

An ethnography of daily life and local social institutions in an ordinary middle class community near the center of Tokyo.

Neighborhood Tokyo – the video – a 30 minute video documentary about Miyamoto-chō produced in 1991-92.

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