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Recent anthropological, sociological, and ethnographic books on Japan

-- monographs and edited volumes --

from approximately 1995 to the present

compiled by Ted Bestor

updated August 7, 2003

please send updates, additions, corrections to Bestor (bestor@wjh.harvard.edu)

Allison, Anne. 2000. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ben-Ari, Eyal. 1997. Japanese childcare: an interpretive study of culture and organization. London, New York: Kegan Paul International.

Benjamin, Gail. 1997. Japanese lessons: a year in a Japanese school through the eyes of an American anthropologist and her children. New York: New York University Press.

Befu, Harumi. 2001. Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron. Trans Pacific Press.

Befu, Harumi, and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis (eds.) 2001. Globalizing Japan. Routledge.

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Bestor, Theodore C., Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor (eds.). 2003. Doing Fieldwork in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Bremen, Jan van, and Shimizu Akitoshi, eds. 1999 Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania. Richmond: Curzon Press.

Brinton, Mary (ed.). 2001. Women's working lives in East Asia. Stanford University Press.

Culter, Suzanne. 1999. Managing decline: Japan's coal industry restructuring and community response. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Cwiertka, Katarzyna with Boudewijn Walraven (eds.) 2001. Asian food: the global and the local. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Cybriwsky, Roman A. 1998. Tokyo, the shogun's city at the twenty-first century. New York: J. Wiley & Sons.

Douglass, Mike and Glenda S. Roberts, eds. 2000 Japan and global migration: foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society. London: Routledge.

Eades, J. S. 1999. Tokyo. Oxford: Clio Press.

Eades, J.S., Tom Gill, and Harumi Befu (eds.). 2000. Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.

Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil (eds.) 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. (published in cooperation with the University of Washington Press, Seattle.)

Frühstück, Sabine. 2003. Colonizing Sex : Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Gill, Tom. 2001. Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. State University of New York Press.

Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra, 1997. Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Goodman, Roger. 2000. Children of the Japanese state: the changing role of child protection institutions in contemporary Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Goodman, Roger (ed.) 2002. Family and social policy in Japan: anthropological approaches. Cambridge University Press.

Goodman, Roger, and Ian Neary (eds.). 1996. Case studies on human rights in Japan. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library.

Goodman, Roger, and David Phillips. 2003. Can the Japanese change their education system? Oxford: Symposium Books.

Goodman, Roger, Gordon White, and Huck-ju Kwon (eds.) 1998. The East Asian welfare model: welfare Orientalism and the state. London: Routledge.

Hardacre, Helen. 1997. Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hashimoto, Akiko. 1996. The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. Cambridge University Press.

Hendry, Joy. 1999. An anthropologist in Japan: glimpses of life in the field. New York: Routledge.

Hendry, Joy. 2000. The Orient strikes back: a global view of cultural display. Oxford: Berg.

Hendry, Joy. 2003. Understanding Japanese society. New York: Routledge.

Hudson, Mark J. 1999. Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. University of Hawai’i Press.

Imamura, Anne E. (ed.) 1996. Re-imaging Japanese women. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ishige, Naomichi. 2001. The history and culture of Japanese food. London: Kegan Paul.

Iwabuchi, Koichi. 2002. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Duke University Press.

Ivy, Marilyn 1995 Discourses of the vanishing: modernity, phantasm, Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Johnson, David T. 2002. The Japanese way of justice: prosecuting crime in Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kaplan, Matthew, et al. (eds.) 1998. Intergenerational Programs: Support for Children, Youth, and Elders in Japan. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Kelsky, Karen 2001 Women on the verge: Japanese women, western dreams. Durham: Duke University Press.

Keyso, Ruth Ann. 2000. Women of Okinawa: nine voices from a Garrison Island. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Kinsella, Sharon. 2000. Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Kondo, Dorinne K. 1997. About face: performing race in fashion and theater. New York: Routledge.

LeBlanc, Robin M. 1999 Bicycle citizens: the political world of the Japanese housewife. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lie, John, ed. 2001 Multiethnic Japan. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Linhart, Sepp, and Sabine Frühstück (eds.) 1998. The culture of Japan as seen through its leisure. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Linger, Daniel T. 2001. No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. Stanford University Press.

Littleton, Scott. 2000. Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lock, Margaret. 2001. Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. UC Press.

Long, Susan O., ed. 1999. Lives in motion: composing circles of self and community in Japan. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University.

Long, Susan O. (ed.). 2000. Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US. Routledge.

Lunsing, Wim, 2001. Beyond common sense: sexuality and gender in contemporary Japan, Kegan Paul, London, New York and Bahrain, 2001.

Mathews, Gordon. 1996. What makes life worth living? How Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Mathews, Gordon. 2000. Global culture/individual identity : searching for home in the cultural supermarket. London: Routledge.

McConnell, David L. 2000. Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET Program. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McCormack, Gavan (ed). 1996. The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. M.E. Sharpe.

McCreery, John L. 2000. Japanese consumer behavior: from worker bees to wary shoppers. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

McVeigh, Brian J. 1997. Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to Be Ladylike. Routledge.

McVeigh, Brian J. 1998. The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality. Routledge.

McVeigh, Brian J. 2001. Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self-Presentation in Japan. Berg.

McVeigh, Brian J. 2002. Japanese Higher Education as Myth. M.E. Sharpe.

Mitsui Toru, and Hosokawa Shuhei, eds. 1998 Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing, Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Mock, John A. 1999. Culture, community and change in a Sapporo neighborhood, 1925-1988 Hanayama. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

Moeran, Brian. 1996. A Japanese advertising agency: an anthropology of media and markets. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Moeran, Brian. 1997. Folk art potters of Japan: beyond an anthropology of aesthetics. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Moeran, Brian (ed.) 2001. Asian media productions. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.

Nelson, John K. 2000. Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Ogasawara, Yuko. 1998. Office ladies and salaried men: power, gender, and work in Japanese companies. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. 2002 Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Raveri, Massimo, and Joy Hendry (eds.) 2001. Japan at play: the ludic and logic of power. New York: Routledge.

Raz, Aviad E. 1999. Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Roberson, James E. 1998 Japanese working class lives: an ethnographic study of factory workers. London: Routledge.

Roberson, James E. and Suzuki Nobue (eds.) 2002. Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Beyond the Urban Salaryman Model. Routledge.

Roberts, Glenda S. 1994. Staying on the line: blue-collar women in contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Robertson, Jennifer E. 1998. Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Røkkum, Arne (1998) Goddesses, Priestesses, Sisters: Mind, Gender and Power in the Monarchic Tradition of the Ryukyus, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. 276 pages. Maps, illustrations ISBN: 8200128423

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2002. Brokered homeland: Japanese Brazilian migrants in Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Ryang, Sonia. 1997. North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology and Identity. M.E. Sharpe.

Ryang, Sonia (ed.) 2000. Koreans in Japan. Routledge.

Sato, Ikuya. 1998. Kamizake Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan. University of Chicago Press.

Schnell, Scott. 1999. The rousing drum: ritual practice in a Japanese community. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

関口　知子（2003）『在日日系ブラジル人の子どもたち：異文化間に育つ子どものア イデンティティ形成』(Nikkei Brazilian Children in Japan: Identity Formation Process of Children Growing Up Intercultural) 明石書店　

Singleton, John C., ed. 1998 Learning in likely places: Varieties of apprenticeship in Japan. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Skov, Lise, and Brian Moeran (eds.) 1995. Women, media, and consumption in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Smyers, Karen A. 1999 The fox and the jewel: shared and private meanings in contemporary Japanese inari worship. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Spielvogel, Laura. 2003. Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs. Durham: Duke University Press.

Stevens, Carolyn S. 1997. On the margins of Japanese society: volunteers and the welfare of the urban underclass. London: Routledge.

Sugimoto, Yoshio. 2003. An Introduction to Japanese Society. 2^nd edition. Cambridge University Press.

Suzuki, Hikaru. 2000 The price of death: the funeral industry in contemporary Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Tamanoi, Mariko A. 1998 Under the shadow of nationalism: politics and poetics of rural Japanese women. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Thang, Leng Leng. 2001. Generations in Touch: Linking the old and young in a Tokyo Neighborhood. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Traphagan, John W. 2000. Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan. State University of New York Press.

Traphagan, John W. and John Knight. (eds.) 2003. Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society. State University of New York Press.

Tsuda, Takeyuki. 2003. Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland. Columbia University Press.

Turner, Christena L. 1995 Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Weiner Michael (ed.). 1997. Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity. London & New York: Routledge.

White, Merry I., 1994. The material child: coming of age in Japan and America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

White, Merry I. 2001. Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yano, Christine R. 2002. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Yoneyama, Lisa 1999 Hiroshima traces: time, space, and the dialectics of memory. Berkeley: University of California Press.