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Neighborhood Tokyo is an ethnography of daily life, local social relationships, and community institutions and identity in Miyamoto-chō (a pseudonym), an ordinary, middle-class community in Tokyo. 

 

My principal research in Miyamoto-chō for this book was conducted in 1979-81, with follow-up research in 1984 and 1986.  I have continued to keep in contact with the community, where I lived with my family again in 1989-90, and have visited many times by myself or with my family in the years since then. 

 

 

 

Neighborhood Tokyothe book

 

Neighborhood Tokyothe video

 

List of publications about Miyamoto-chō