A reference list of doctoral dissertations on Japan in anthropology

1937 John Fee Embree Suye Mura: A changing economic order Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1947 Robert F. Spencer Japanese Buddhism in the United States, 1940-1945: A study in acculturation Department of Anthropology University of California-Berkeley 1949 John Campbell Pelzel Social stratification in Japanese urban economic life Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1950 William A. Caudill Japanese-American acculturation and personality Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1951 George A. DeVos Acculturation and personality structure: A Rorschach study of Japanese Americans Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1951 Edward Norbeck Takashima: A fishing community of Japan Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1953 John Bilheimer Cornell Matsunagi: The life and social organization of a Japanese mountain community Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1953 Robert J. Smith Kurusu: A changing Japanese agriculturalcommunity Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1954 Ishino Iwao The oyabun-kobun institution: An introductory analysis of a ritual kinship system in Japan Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1955 I. Roger Yoshino Selected social changes in a Japanese village, 1935-1953 Department of Anthropology University of Southern California 1957 John D. Donoghue An eta community in northern Japan: A study in intra-group relations Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1957 Thomas W. Maretzki Child rearing in an Okinawan community Department of Anthropology Yale University 1958 William Philip Lebra Okinawan religion Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1961 Erwin Henry Johnson Nagura mura: An historical analysis of stability and change in community structure Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1961 David W. Plath The strung and the unstrung: Holidays in Japanese life Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1962 Harumi Befu Hamlet in nation: Theplace of 3 Japanese rural communities in their broader social context Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin 1962 James Akira Hirabayashi The relation between national and local normative systems: A study of a Japanese mountain community Department of Social Relations Harvard University 1963 John F. Plummer Oya, a village of northeast Japan Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1964 L. Keith Brown Dozoku: A study of descent groups in rural Japan Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1965 John Singleton Education as an instrument of national policy: A case study of a modern Japanese middle school and its communities Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1967 Takie Sugiyama Lebra An interpretation of religious conversion: A millennial movement among Japanese-Americans in Hawaii Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1967 Hickman Howard Wimberley Seicho-no-ie: A study of a Japanese religio-political association Department ofAnthropology Cornell University 1968 Kenne Hyun-Kyun Chang The dynamics of cultural ecology of Suruki hamlet, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in the postwar years Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1968 Christie W. Kiefer Personality and social change in a Japanese danchi Department of Anthropology University of California-Berkeley 1968 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney A northwest coast Sakhalin Ainu world view Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Madison 1969 Robert Lewis Ramseyer Takachiho, 1868-1968: Evolving patterns of community decision-making in a developing nation-state Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1969 David K. Reynolds Directed behavior change: Japanese psychotherapy in a private mental hospital Department of Anthropology University of California at Los Angeles 1969 S[rinivasaiah] Seshaiah The sociological impact of postwar land reform on the rural community in Japan: A study of a Tohoku village Indian School of International Studies 1970Bernard Bernier The popular religion of a Japanese village and its transformation Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1970 Shimpo Mitsuru Economic development and social change in rural Japan: A case study of Shiwa community, Iwate Prefecture Department of Anthropology and Sociology University of British Columbia 1971 Thomas P. Rohlen The organization and ideology of a Japanese bank: An ethnographic study of a modern organization Department of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania 1971 Eugene E. Ruyle The political economy of the Japanese ghetto Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1972 Rodney Clark Social relations in a Japanese company School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1973 Ronald O. Haak Nishijin weavers: A study of the functions of tradition in modern Japanese society Department of Anthropology University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 1973 Thomas Wayne Johnson Shonendan: Adolescent peer group socialization in rural Japan Department ofStanford University 1978 Liza Crichfield Dalby The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1978 Jeffrey Lewis Dann “Kendo” in Japanese martial culture: Swordsmanship as self-cultivation Department of Anthropology University of Washington 1978 Kenneth A. Skinner The Japanese salaryman in a government bureaucracy: A participant observation study of a public corporation Department of Anthropology University of Minnesota 1978 Barbara Bowles Swann Affines, office and factionalism in three rural Japanese settlements Department of Anthropology Brandeis University 1979 Joy Hendry Changing attitudes to marriage in Japan Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 1979 Jill Kleinberg Kinship and economic growth: Pottery production in a Japanese village Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1979 H. James McLendon Sogo shosha: Social structure and sociocultural process and change in a Japanese general tradingcompany Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1980 James W. Genovese Karate organization in Japan Department of Anthropology State University of New York, Stony Brook 1980 Hamada Tomoko Comparative study of business culture: A United States-Japanese joint venture company in Japan Department of Anthropology University of California-Berkeley 1980 William W. Kelly Water control in an agrarian state: Irrigation organization in a Japanese river basin, 1600-1870 Department of Anthropology Brandeis University 1980 Susan Orpett Long Fame, fortune, and friends: Constraints and strategies in the careers of Japanese physicians Department of Anthropology University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 1980 John A. Mock Social change in an urban neighborhood: A case study in Sapporo, Japan Department of Anthropology Michigan State University 1980 Brian Moeran Social aspects of folk craft production, marketing and aesthetics in a Japanese pottery community Department of Anthropology School ofOriental and African Studies, University of London 1980 Merry I. White Stranger in his native land: Group boundaries and the Japanese international returnee Harvard University 1981 Pamela J. Asquith Some aspects of anthropomorphism in the terminology and philosophy underlying Western and Japanese studies of the social behaviour of non-human primates University of Oxford 1981 Laurel L. Cornell Peasant family and inheritance in a Japanese community, 1671 to 1980: an anthropological analysis of local population registers Department of Anthropology Johns Hopkins University 1981 John B. Grossberg Formulating attitudes toward death: A study of elderly Japanese Jodo Shinshu Buddhists Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1981 Robert C. Marshall Collective decision making in rural Japan Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1981 David Harold Stark The yakuza: Japanese crime incorporated Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1982 DorinneKay Kondo Work, family and the self: A cultural analysis of Japanese family enterprise Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1982 Sharon J. Traweek Uptime, downtime, spacetime, and power: An ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States Program in the History of Consciousness University of California-Santa Cruz 1983 Michael Ashkenazi Festival change and continuity in a Japanese town Department of Anthropology Yale University 1983 Theodore C. Bestor Miyamoto-cho: the social organization of a Tokyo neighborhood Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1983 Taimie L. Bryant Mediation of divorce disputes in the Japanese family court system, with emphasis on the Tokyo Family Court Department of Anthropology University of California-Los Angeles 1983 Barbara Darlington Ito Entrepreneurial women in urban Japan: The role of personal networks Department of Anthropology University of Iowa 1984 Akiyama Hiroko Resource exchanges in dyadic familyrelations in the U. S. and Japan: towards a theory of dependence and interdependence of the elderly Department of Anthropology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1984 Eyal Ben-Ari Community action and community care in present-day Japan: a study of two communities Department of Anthropology University of Oxford 1984 Walter D. Edwards Ritual in the commercial world: Japanese society through its weddings Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1984 Ok-pyo Moon Kim Economic development and social change in a Japanese village Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 1984 David C. Lewis Practical religion in Japan: a study of two urban neighborhoods Department of Social Anthropology University of Manchester 1984 Mary J. Picone Rites and symbols of death in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Oxford 1984 Nancy R. Rosenberger Middle-age Japanese women and the meanings of the menopausal transition Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1984Takiguchi Naoko Miyako shamanism: shamans, clients, and their interactions Department of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles 1984 Jan G. van Bremen The moral imperative and leverage for rebellion: an anthropological study of Wang Yang-ming doctrine in Japan Department of Anthropology University of California-Berkeley 1985 Jennifer L. Anderson Chanoyu: an anthropological approach to tea Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1985 Richard H. Moore Land tenure and social organization in a rice growing community in Tohoku Japan Department of Anthropology University of Texas-Austin 1985 Stephen Patrick Nussbaum The residential community in modern Japan: an analysis of a Tokyo suburban development Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1985 Jennifer Ellen Robertson The making of Kodaira; being an ethnography of a Japanese city’s progress Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1986 Anne Allison Sexuality as ideology in present-day Japan Department ofAnthropology University of Chicago 1986 Thomas S. Hardy People of the garden: aesthetics in everyday life in a Tokyo neighborhood Department of Anthropology New School for Social Research 1986 Robert J. Marra The Katsumoto-ura fishing cooperative: a lesson in the autonomous control of a fishing economy Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1986 Glenda S. Roberts Non-trivial pursuits: Japanese blue-collar women and the lifetime employment system Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1986 David Blake Willis In search of a transnational culture: An ethnography of the student culture of an international school in Japan Education (Educational Administration) University of Iowa 1987 John J. Donohue The forge of the spirit: Ritual, motion and meaning in the Japanese martial art tradition Department of Anthropology State University of New York, Stony Brook 1987 Roger Goodman A study of the kikokushijo phenomenon: returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan Department ofSocial Anthropology University of Oxford 1987 Imamura Atsuko Address and reference in rural Japan: Dynamics of social interaction Department of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania 1987 Nomura Naoki Ethnography of interaction at a Japanese mental hospital Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1987 Ota Yoshinobu Ritual as narrative: Folk religious experience in the southern Ryukyus Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1987 Christena L. Turner Breaking the silence: consciousness, commitment, and action in Japanese unions Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1988 Mildred Rosetta Creighton Sales, service, and sanctity: an anthropological analysis of Japanese department stores Department of Anthropology University of Washington 1988 Marilyn Ivy Discourses of the vanishing in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1988 Lauren Joan Kotloff Dai-Ichi Preschool: fostering individuality and cooperative group life in a progressiveJapanese preschool Cornell University 1988 Dolores P. Martinez The ama: tradition and change in a Japanese diving community University of Oxford 1988 Laura Ann Miller Interethnic communication in Japan: Interactions between Japanese and American co-workers Department of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles 1988 John G. Russell The descendants of Susano: Marginalization and psychiatric institutionalization in Japan Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1988 Stephen R. Smith Drinking and sobriety in Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1988 Alan N. Timmerman Tradition and community in modern Japan: tradition as a mediating agent in social change at the family and local level Department of Anthropology University of California-San Diego 1989 Scott F. Clark The social and symbolic context of bathing in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Oregon 1989 Michael J. Flory More Japanese than Japan: adaptation and social network formation amongwives of Japanese businessmen temporarily resident in Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1989 Kuwayama Takami The Japanese conception of the self: The dynamics of autonomy and heteronomy Department of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles 1989 Nitta Fumiteru The Japanese father, American mother, and their children: Bicultural socialization experiences in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Hawaii 1989 Cheryl A. Silverman Jewish emigres and popular images of Jews in Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1990 Arima Midori An ethnographic and historical study of Ogasawara/the Bonin Islands, Japan Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1990 Clare P. Fawcett A study of the socio-political context of Japanese archeology Department of Anthropology McGill University 1990 Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa Stratification, social control, and student culture: an ethnography of three Japanese junior high schools Departmentof Anthropology Northwestern University 1990 Furuno Kazuko The emperor and the Japanese: power and faith in Japanese culture Department of Anthropology New School for Social Research 1990 Kinoshita Futoshi Population and household change of a Japanese village, 1760-1870 Department of Anthropology University of Arizona 1990 Yagasaki Junko Emotionally becoming “Japanese”? A study of cultural identity of Americans living in Japan Department of Anthropology University of California-Los Angeles 1991 Han Kyung-Koo Company as community: A processual anthropological approach to the study of a medium-sized Japanese business organization, Tokyo Inshokan 1947-1990 Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1991 David Link McConnell Educational policy for global integration: the social and political construction of internationalization in Japan Department of Anthropology Stanford University 1991 Mary Carter McConnell Culture and capital in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Virginiamemories in contemporary Japan: discourse, society, history, and subjectivity Department of Anthropology University of Arizona 1995 Louella L. Matsunaga Working in a chain store: A case study of a Japanese company School of Oriental and Asian Studies University of London 1995 Darrell Gene Moen The emergent culture of the Japanese organic farming movement and its implications for political economy Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin, Madison 1995 Carolyn S. Stevens A purehabu with a view: volunteer activities and social marginality in urban Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1995 Nobuko Imai Thurn Customary practice and legal codes of succession and inheritance in Japan Department of Anthropology Ohio State University 1995 Christine Reiko Yano Shaping tears of a nation: An ethnography of emotion in Japanese popular song Department of Anthropology University of Hawaii 1996 Naomi C. Brown The nisetai jutaku phenomenon: the prefabricated housing industryand changing family patterns in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of Oxford 1996 Louisa May Cameron White-collar women in the Japanese workplace Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1996 Cynthia Dickel Dunn Style and Genre in Japanese Women’s Discourse Department of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin 1996 Janet Kay Fair Japanese women’s language and the ideology of Japanese uniqueness Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1996 Deborah Cordero Fiedler Mothers helping daughters to become mothers: The sociocultural context of satogaeri childbirth in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1996 Tom Gill Men of uncertainty: The social organization of day labourers in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London 1996 Inoue Miyako The political economy of gender and language in Japan Department of Anthropology Washington University 1996Kawahara Yukari Politics, pedagogy, and sexuality: sex education in Japanese secondary schools Department of Anthropology Yale University 1996 Karen Kelsky Self as other, other selves: gender, identity, and narratives of women’s internationalism in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of Hawai’i 1996 Sharon Kinsella Editors, artists and the changing status of manga in Japanese society, 1986-1995 University of Oxford 1996 Sandra Soo-Jin Lee Social memory and ethnicity: The aging of Korean residents in Japan Program in Medical Anthropology University of California-Berkeley and University of California-San Francisco 1996 Deborah Lynn Moore The household division of labor in Hokkaido, Japan Department of Anthropology Ohio State University 1996 Ellen Louise Schattschneider Circuits of discipline: production, reproduction, and the work of the gods in Tsugaru (Japan) Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1996 Martin D. Weiss Japanese immigrants in Brazil: aquantitative study of two postwar agricultural colonies Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1996 Heung Wah Wong An anthropological study of a Japanese supermarket in Hong Kong Department of Anthropology University of Oxford 1996 Jan Morgan Zeserson Language of menopause: the change in Japan Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1997 Els-Marie Anbäcken Who cares? Culture, structure, and agency in caring for the elderly in Japan Institute of Oriental Languages Stockholms Universitet 1997 Bruce Reid Caron “Performing democracy”: Kyoto’s Higashi-Kujo Madang festival as a counter-public event Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara 1997 Teresa Anne Hiener Shinto wedding, samurai bride: inventing tradition and fashioning identity in the rituals of bridal dress in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1997 James Henry II Holland Allusion, performance, and status: The social and aesthetic world of elite practitioners of theJapanese tea ceremony Department of Anthropology Cornell University 1997 Kawano Satsuki Facing deities and ancestors: place, power, and gender in Japanese ritual life Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1997 William H. Kelly Empty orchestras: an anthropological analysis of karaoke in Japan University of Oxford 1997 Otake Emiko Ayabe life: Its dimension of Buraku and Buraku-min Department of Anthropology Indiana University 1997 Sakai Junko Narrating our cultures in the floating world: Working lives in Japanese banks in the City of London since the 1970s Department of Anthropology University of Essex 1997 Suzuki Hikaru Marketing postmortem services: the funeral industry in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1997 Leng Leng Thang Generations in touch: Linking the old and young in a Tokyo neighborhood Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1997 John W. Traphagan In the shadow of Obasuteyama: old age and thedisembodiment of social values in a Japanese town Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1997 Tsuda Takeyuki Strangers in the ethnic homeland: The migration, ethnic identity, and psychosocial adaptation of Japan’s new immigrant minority Department of Anthropology University of California-Berkeley 1997 Eldred Leslie Williams, Jr. Earth, boundaries, and the foundations of folk Shinto Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 1997 G. Peter Witteveen Local history and the politics of renewing a regional Japanese town Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Madison 1998 Kaye Broadbent Shortchanged? Part-time workers in Japan School of Asian and International Studies Griffith University 1998 Peter Cave Schooling, selfhood, and educational reform in Japan: An ethnographic study of upper primary and lower secondary education Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 1998 Rupert A. Cox The Zen arts: an anthropological study of the culture ofaesthetic form in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Edinburgh 1998 Katarzyna J. Cwiertka The making of modern culinary tradition in Japan Department of Anthropology Leiden University 1998 Laura Tracy Ginsberg Fitness and femininity: discipline and display of the female body in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Yale University 1998 Kutsuzawa Kiyomi Gender, work, and the politics of identity: Work collectives and social activism among middle-class housewives in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of Connecticut 1998 Lynne Yukie Nakano Civic volunteers in a Japanese neighborhood: negotiating status in a marginal place Department of Anthropology Yale University 1998 Katherine Heather Rupp Gifts in Japan: ritual constitution of personal identities, social relationships, and cosmic values through the presentation of objects Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1998 Christopher Scott Thompson Anytime, anyplace, anybody: lifelonglearning in a Tohoku town Department of Anthropology University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 1999 Aoyagi Hiroshi Islands of eight million smiles: Pop-idol performances and the field of symbolic production Department of Anthropology University of British Columbia 1999 Sawa Kurotani Becker Transnational home-making and the construction of gender and cultural identities among expatriate Japanese wives in the United States Department of Anthropology University of Colorado-Boulder 1999 Joshua Abraham Breslau Learning to locate the heart: An apprenticeship in Japanese psychiatry Department of Anthropology Harvard University 1999 Eric Walton Clemons Transcending national identity: Foreign employees and organizational management in corporate Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 1999 Ian Condry Japanese rap music: an ethnography of globalization in popular culture Department of Anthropology Yale University 1999 Joseph Raymond Hawkins Invisible people: An ethnography ofClass culture: Pedagogy and politics in a Japanese working-class high school in Tokyo Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 2003 Suzuki Nobue Battlefields of affection: Gender, global desires and the politics of intimacy in Filipina-Japanese transnational marriages Department of Anthropology University of Hawai’i 2003 Suzuki Taku Transnational body: Racial citizenship of Okinawan-Bolivians in Colonia Okinawa, Bolivia and in Yokohama, Japan Department of Anthropology University of Minnesota 2003 Bruce White Modernity’s children: generational change, identity and global citizenship in Japan Department of Anthropology Oxford Brookes University 2004 Andrea G. Arai Recessionary effects: The crisis of the child and the culture of reform in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2004 Haeng-Ja Sachiko Chung Performing sex, selling heart: Korean nightclub hostesses in Japan Department of Anthropology University of California-Los Angeles 2004 JoanneCullinane A “strange new disease” (atarashii kibyo): HIV/AIDS as media spectacle, medical crisis, and lived experience in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 2004 Rebecca Forgash Military transnational marriage in Okinawa: Intimacy across boundaries of nation, race, and class Department of Anthropology University of Arizona 2004 Ruth Martin Opportunity and fulfillment: Overseas transfer and the Japanese housewife overseas Oxford Brookes University 2004 Tamiko Ortega Noll Pragmatic singles: Being an unmarried woman in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 2004 David R. Odo The edge of the field of vision:  Defining Japaneseness and the image archive of the Ogasawara Islands Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2004 Ogawa Akihiro The failure of civil society? An ethnography of NPOs and the state in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Cornell University 2004 Otani Midori Intercultural work relationshipsbetween Japanese language teachers and foreign assistant teachers in Japan: The JET Program Department of Anthropology American University 2004 Satsuka Shiho Traveling nature, imagining the globe: Japanese tourism in the Canadian Rockies Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz 2004 Mitchell W. Sedgwick Organising globalisation: Managing across cultures at a Japanese corporation in France Department of Social Anthropology University of Cambridge 2004 Takato Michiyo Imagining ethnicity and polyphony at margins: Nikkei migration, school, and everyday life in Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2004 Donald C. Wood From Paper to Practice: Social Solidarity, Political Economy, and Change in a Planned Japanese Village Department of Cultural Anthropology University of Tokyo 2004 Yamaguchi Tomomi Feminism fractured: An ethnography of the dissolution and textual reinvention of a Japanese feminist group Department of Anthropology University of Michigan,Ann Arbor 2005 Einat  Bar-On Cohen Japanese martial arts in Israel: A case of traveling culture Department of Sociology and Anthropology Hebrew Univesity of Jerusalem 2005 Gabriella Lukács Romancing the Nation, Dramatizing Citizenship: Television Dramas, Women and Millennial Japan Department of Cultural Anthropology Duke University 2005 Gregory S. Poole Constructing Daigaku: A professional perspective on university tradition and reform in Japan Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2005 Jonathan Reed Corporate colors, corporate cultures: Narratives of selfhood and otherness among Japanese businesspeople and Black professionals in Tokyo offices Department of Anthropology University of Oregon 2005 George Kendall Vickery A cold of the heart: Japan strives to normalize depression Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 2006 Hidaka Tomoko Corporate warriors or company animals? An investigation of Japanese salaryman masculinities across three generations Schoolof Social Sciences University of Adelaide 2006 Horiguchi Sachiko 堀口佐知子 Hikikomori and cultural debates about Japanese personhood: an anthropological study of Japan’s so-called ‘socially withdrawn youth’ Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2006 Ishido Masa Sport culture in Japan and the challenge of global processes: the specific case of Japanese baseball and labour migration Department of Anthropology Brunel University 2006 Kitanaka Junko Society in distress: The psychiatric production of depression in contemporary Japan Departments of Anthropology and Social Science of Medicine McGill University 2006 Nakamura Fuyubi Creating new forms of “visualised” words: An anthropological study of contemporary Japanese calligraphy Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2006 David Novak Japan noise: Global media circulation and the transpacific circuits of experimental music Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2006 Okamoto Ikumi Journey from life todeath: An anthropological study of cancer patients in Japan Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2006 Jennifer Sally Prough Straight from the heart : gender, intimacy, and the cultural production of shōjo manga Department of Cultural Anthropology Duke University 2006 Colin S. Smith After affluence: Freeters and the limits of New Middle Class Japan Department of Anthropology Yale University 2007 Christopher A. Ames Mired in history: Victimhood, memory, and ambivalence in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 2007 Chan Yeeshan Japanese from China: The zanryu-hojin and their lives in two countries Modern Languages and Cultures University of Hong Kong 2007 John Joseph Ertl Revisiting village Japan Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley 2007 Dawn-Elissa Tiye Ighosotu Fischer “Kobushi ageroo! (=Pump ya fist!)”: Blackness, “race” and politics in Japanese Hiphop Department of Anthropology University of Florida 2007Konagaya Hideyo Performing the Okinawan woman in taiko: Gender, folklore, and identity politics in modern Japan Department of Folklore University of Pennsylvania 2007 Bridget Love A kingdom of mountain bounty: Village revitalization and rural depopulation in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 2007 Maeda Mitsuo Wild men, bad boys, and model citizens: The integration of foreigners in sumo wrestling Department of East Asian Studies University of Southern California 2007 Vincent Mirza La crise et le sens du travail au Japon. Morale, identite et liberte chez les jeunes adultes de Tokyo Department of Anthropology Universite de Montreal 2007 Katrina L. Moore Journeys into later life: Gender and self-cultivation in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Harvard University 2007 Sumii Kensuke Modern invention of a region and its traditional medical knowledge through science and technology Departments of Anthropology and Medical Anthropology University of California,Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco 2007 Alfredo Ruiz Varela Ritual and social change: A Japanese example of university school festivals State University of New York at Stony Brook 2007 Watanabe Takehiro After prosperity: An ethnography of economic decline in a Japanese corporate city Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2007 Christal Whelan Religious responses to globalization in Japan: The case of the God Light Association Department of Anthropology Boston University 2007 Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw Convenience stores in contemporary Japan: An ethnography of modern service, local familiarity, and global transformation Department of Anthropology Yale University 2008 Allison Alexy Intimate separations: Divorce and its reverberations in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Yale University 2008 Choi Jimee Cultural performance of the margin: Alternative history and politics of identity among Tsushima islanders in Japan Southern Illinois University atCarbondale 2008 Jason Allen Danely Departure and return: Abandonment, memorial and aging in Japan Departm,ent of Anthropology University of California, San Diego 2008 Lucy Dugmore The role of ‘culture halls’ (bunka kaikan) in contemporary Japanese society Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2008 Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen An ethnography of young Soka Gakkai members’ support for Komeito: religious idealism and political reality in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2008 Dawn Marie Grimes-MacLellan Performing self and society: Growth and maturity at a Japanese junior high school University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008 Kim Hyojin From heritage to people’s house: Kyomachiya revitalization movements and regional identity in Kyoto Department of Anthropology Harvard University 2008 Koga Yukiko The Double Inheritance: The Afterlife of Colonial Modernity in the Cities of Former “Manchuria”Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2008 Andrew MacNaughton Company and personal character in the eikaiwa industry: An ethnography of a private language school in Japan Modern Languages and Cultures University of Hong Kong 2008 Jeffrey Daniel Maret An ethnography of invisibility: Education and special needs children in Japan Department of Anthropology University of Hawai’i at Manoa 2008 Minami Midori Images of the Ainu Department of Anthropology State University of New York at Buffalo 2008 Muraki Noriko Citizen professionals: College women, care work, and the transformation of middle class subjectivity in post-bubble Japan Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008 Jessica Busch Sipos The way of Choju: Self-sufficiency, health, and longevity in Ashikita town, an agrarian community in southern Japan Department of Anthropology University of Hawai’i at Manoa 2008 Olga Kanzaki Sooudi The burdens of an authentic life: Urban modernity, transationalmobility, and nation-making among Japanese in New York City Department of Anthropology Yale University 2008 Takeyama Akiko The art of seduction and affect economy: Neoliberal class struggle and gender politics in a Tokyo host club Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2009 Valerie Holshouser Barske Performing embodied histories: Colonialism, gender, and Okinawa in modern Japan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2009 Emma E. Cook Failing freeters: young men, masculinity and adulthood in Japan Department of Anthropology School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2009 Claude-Eve Dubuc Japanese Women’s Language: Unfolding Female Managers’ Experiences and Choices Department of Cultural Anthropology University of Tokyo 2009 Michael Fisch On the train: An anthropology of the technosocial in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2009 Fu Huiyan Haken’s Dignity: An Emerging Non-regular Labour Force in JapanDepartment of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2009 Joseph Doyle Hankins Working through skin: Making leather, making a multicultural Japan Department of Anthropology The University of Chicago 2009 Swee Lin Ho Work, money and drinking: the friendship networks of women managers in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of Oxford 2009 Imoto Yuki The production and consumption of international preschools in Japan: a study of the organization of diversity Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2009 Kaneko Sachiko Hikikomori and Cultural Debates about Japanese Personhood : An Anthropological Study of Japan’s So-Called ‘Socially-Withdrawn Youth’ Department of Anthropology University of Oxford 2009 Konishi Yoshiko Making working mothers: The unhappy marriage of neoliberalism and feminism in contemporary Japan Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley 2009 Garrett Alexandrea McDowell Eating potato chips with chopsticks: Nikkei LatinAmericans making home, shaping family and defining selves Department of Anthropology Temple University 2009 Aaron L. Miller Bushidō vs science: beyond conflicting pedagogies of Japanese basketball coaching Department of Social Anthropology University of Oxford 2009 Rositsa Mutafchieva From subnational to micronational: Buraku communities and transformations in identity in modern and contemporary Japan Department of East Asian Studies McGill University 2009 Lorraine Plourde Difficult music: An ethnography of listening for the avant-garde in Tokyo Department of Anthropology Columbia University 2009 Umeda Yoshimi Filipina intermarriage in rural Japan: an anthropological approach Department of Anthropology London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London 2010 Akanuma Nanao Stepping Outside the Ring: An Ethnography of Intimate Associations in Japanese Professional Sumo University of California at Irvine 2010 Sebastian Boret From social to ecological immortality: