The archive of doctoral dissertations offers one way by which we can asses the depth, scale, and substance of an academic field like sociocultural anthropology. The following reference bibliography lists over 400 doctoral dissertations that fall within the sociocultural anthropology of Japan, beginning with John Embree’s dissertation filed in 1937 through the present, some eight decades later. As fr as I can determine, this is the largest corpus of single-country ethnographic dissertations in all of anthropology. The numbers for a region like Amazonia or sub-Saharan Africa or a continent like North America might exceed this, but not even Australia or India, longstanding “country” fields of anthropological inquiry, have generated quite this many dissertations.
Dissertations are an apt metric for a field like anthropology because they represent extended, substantive, primary research projects, designed and conducted by a single research anthropologist, who produces an ethnographic monograph (the dissertation). FINISH
There are several caveats and other points to note. The terms of inclusion and exclusion for this list are somewhat arbitrary and permeable. “Japan” itself is a shape-shifting FINISH
And of course, there are no doubt multiple errors of omission and commission, and as this list has grown over the years, I have depended on colleagues and others to bring any errors, corrections, and additions to my attention. It will never be fully comprehensive nor correct. Perhaps a Wiki format of distributed collaboration will prove a better eventual platform for such a database. But for the time being, I offer it as a rough foundation for appreciating and analyzing the contours of our field.
A final note about author naming convention: Western names are given in First/Middle/Last Name order, while East Asian names are given in Last/First Name order.
| 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, Ann Arbor |
| 1953 | John Bilheimer Cornell | Matsunagi: The Life and Social Organization of a Japanese Mountain Community | Department of Anthropology | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1953 | Robert J. Smith | Kurusu: A Changing Japanese Agricultural Community | 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: The Place 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 of Anthropology | 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 | Sreenivasaiah] Seshaiah | The Sociological Impact of Postwar Land Reform on the Rural Community in Japan: A Study of a Tohoku Village | Sociology | Indian School of International Studies |
| 1970 | Bernard 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 of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1974 | Sonya Salamon | In the Intimate Arena: Japanese Women and Their Families | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 1974 | Tanaka Masako Uchida | Kinship and Descent in an Okinawan Village | Department of Anthropology | University of Rochester |
| 1974 | Yamamoto Akira | Communication in Culture Spaces: A Study of the Buraku | Department of Anthropology | Indiana University |
| 1975 | Atsumi Reiko | Personal Relationships of Japanese White-Collar Company Employees | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 1975 | Sylvia Junko Yanagisako | Social and Cultural Change in Japanese-American Kinship | Department of Anthropology | University of Washington, Seattle |
| 1976 | Walter L. Ames | Police and Community in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1976 | Stewart E. Guthrie | A Japanese New Religion: Rissho Kosei-Kai in a Japanese Farming Village | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 1976 | Margaret M. Lock | Oriental Medicine in Urban Japan: A Harmony of Tradition and Science | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1976 | Linda L. Perry | Mothers, Wives, and Daughters in Osaka: Autonomy, Alliance, and Professionalism | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 1977 | Namihira Emiko | Hare, Ke, and Kegare: The Structure of Japanese Folk Belief | Department of Anthropology | University of Texas |
| 1977 | Paul H. Noguchi | The “One Railroad Family” of the Japanese National Railroads: A Cultural Analysis of Japanese Industrial Familialism | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 1978 | Jane M. Bachnik | Inside and Outside the Japanese Household (Ie): A Contextual Approach to Japanese Social Organization | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 1978 | Samuel J. Coleman | Induced Abortion and Contraceptive Method Choice among Urban Japanese Marrieds | Department of Anthropology | Columbia University |
| 1978 | Liza Crihfield | 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 Trading Company | 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 of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| 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 | Institute of Social Anthropology | 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, 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 | Dorinne Kay 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 Family Relations 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 Social Anthropology | University of Cambridge |
| 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 |
| 1984 | Takiguchi 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 of Anthropology | 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 of Social 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 Progressive Japanese Preschool | Department of Human Development and Family Studies | Cornell University |
| 1988 | Dolores P. Martinez | The Ama: Tradition and Change in a Japanese Diving Community | Institute of Social Anthropology | 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 among Wives 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 Hawai’i |
| 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 | Department of 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 Virginia |
| 1991 | Brian J. McVeigh | Gratitude, Obedience, and Humility of Heart: The Cultural Construction of Belief in a Japanese New Religion | Department of Anthropology | Princeton University |
| 1991 | Andrew Allen Painter | The Creation of Japanese Television and Culture | Department of Anthropology | University of Michigan |
| 1991 | Sandra L. Rouse | “Meibutsu” in Banff: The Structuration of a Japanese Tourist Destination | Department of Anthropology | University of Calgary |
| 1991 | Katarina V. Sjoberg | Mr. Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in a Hierarchical Culture | Department of Anthropology | University of Lund |
| 1991 | Tada Eiko | Maintaining a Balance: Between “Hito” (Person) and “Kojin” (Individual) in a Japanese Farming Community | Department of Anthropology | University of California,San Diego |
| 1992 | Kalman D. Applbaum | Takatsuki: A Study of the Living Arrangements, Marriage, and Institutional Membership in a Japanese Commuter City | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 1992 | Chung Byung-Ho | Childcare Politics: Life and Power in Japanese Day Care Centers | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 1992 | Christopher Romig Keener | Grass-Roots Industry in the Town of Sakaki: An Alternative Perspective of the Japanese Postwar “Miracle” | Department of Anthropology | University of California-Berkeley |
| 1992 | John Knight | Depopulation, Tourism, and “Village Revival” in Wakayama, Japan | Department of Anthropology | London School of Economics, University of London |
| 1993 | Sharman Lark Babior | Women of a Tokyo Shelter: Domestic Violence and Sexual Exploitation in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 1993 | Jennifer E. Beer | Packaged Experiences: Japanese Tours to Southeast Asia | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1993 | Diana Lynn Bethel | From Abandonment to Community: Life in a Japanese Institution for the Elderly | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawai’i, Manoa |
| 1993 | Carol Jean Corkern | Formal and Informal Aspects of Japanese Education as Represented in a Rural Town in Northern Honshu, Japan | Department of Anthropology | Ohio State University |
| 1993 | Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni | Packaged Weddings, Packaged Brides: The Japanese Ceremonial Occasions Industry | Department of Anthropology | University of London |
| 1993 | L. Benjamin Hill | Japanese Students at an American University in Japan: An Ethnography | Department of Anthropology | University of Oregon |
| 1993 | Gordon Clark Mathews | Ikigai: The Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Japan and the United States | Department of Anthropology | Cornell University |
| 1993 | Molly Ann McGinn | Spring in the Stone Garden: One Japanese Monastic Community’s Attempt to Return to the “Original Spirit” of Zen | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1993 | John Kenneth Nelson | Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1993 | James Earl Roberson | Work Hard, Play Hard: Japanese Working Class Lives | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawaii |
| 1993 | Scott Randall Schnell | The Rousing Drum: Ritual, Change, and Adaptation in a Rural Mountain Community of Central Japan | Department of Anthropology | Ohio State University |
| 1993 | Karen Ann Smyers | The Fox and the Jewel: A Study of Shared and Private Meanings in Japanese Inari Worship | Department of Anthropology | Princeton University |
| 1993 | Tai Eiko | Taiwanese in Japan: A Legacy of Japanese Rule in Taiwan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1993 | Lisa Yoneyama | Hiroshima Narratives and the Politics of Memory | Department of Anthropology | Stanford University |
| 1994 | Amy Borovoy | Good Wives and Mothers: The Production of Japanese Domesticity in a Global Economy | Department of Anthropology | Stanford University |
| 1994 | Richard Takashi Hara | Dividing Harvests: Household and Property in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | City University of New York |
| 1994 | Masami Iwasaki-Goodman | An Analysis of Social and Cultural Change in Ayukawa-Hama | Department of Anthropology | University of Alberta |
| 1994 | Kweon Sug-In | Politics of Furusato in Aizu, Japan: Local Identities and Metropolitan Discourses | Department of Anthropology | Stanford University |
| 1994 | Elizabeth Miller | A Borderless Age: Aids, Gender and Power in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 1994 | Mori Shunta | The Social Problems of Students Returning to Japan from Sojourns Overseas: A Social Constructionist Study | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1994 | Melvin C. Powell, Jr. | Ever a New Beginning: Processes of Symbolization and Social Action in Soka Gakkai, a Contemporary Japanese New Religion | Department of Anthropology | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1995 | Han Seung-mi | From Regional Craft to National Symbol: Politics and Identity in a Japanese Regional Industry | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 1995 | Wim Lunsing | Beyond Common Sense : Negotiating Constructions of Sexuality and Gender in Japan | Department of Anthropology | Oxford Brookes University |
| 1995 | Matsuki Keiko | Creating Showa Memories 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 | Sonia Ryang | Language and Ideology in Everyday Life: Social Reproduction of North Koreans in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Cambridge |
| 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 Industry and 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 |
| 1996 | Kawahara 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 | Institute of Social Anthropology | 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: A Quantitative 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 the Japanese 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 | Institute of Social Anthropology | 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, Urbana-Champaign |
| 1997 | John W. Traphagan | In the Shadow of Obasuteyama: Old Age and the Disembodiment 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 of Aesthetic 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: Lifelong Learning 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 of Same-Sexuality in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Southern California |
| 1999 | Jeffry Thomas Hester | Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in a Mixed Korean/Japanese Locale of Osaka, Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1999 | Masamichi Sebastian Inoue | U.S. Military Base Problems in Okinawa, Japan: Identity, Place, and Social Movement in the Age of Globalization | Department of Anthropology | Duke University |
| 1999 | Thomas David Looser | The Celebration of Eternity: Space-Times of the State and Gestures of History in the Early Modern Noh Theater of Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Chicago |
| 1999 | Ogasawara Haruno | Living with Natural Disasters: Narratives of the Great Kanto and Great Hanshin Earthquakes | Department of Anthropology | Northwestern University |
| 1999 | Joshua Hotaka Roth | Defining Communities: The Nation, the Firm, the Neighborhood, and Japanese Brazilian Migrants to Japan | Department of Anthropology | Cornell University |
| 1999 | Maya Morioka Todeschini | Bittersweet Crossroads: Women of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 1999 | Watanabe Buichiro | “Attaining Enlightenment with This Body”: Primacy of Practice in Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, Japan | Department of Anthropology | State University of New York, Stony Brook |
| 1999 | Linda Elisabeth White | Feminism within and Beyond Japan: Women’s Movements in Tokyo in 1995 | Department of Anthropology | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2000 | Rosemarie Bernard | The Image World of Jingu: Media Representation and the Performance of Rites of Renewal at the Grand Shrines of Ise, 1869-1996 | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Naomi MacLachlan | National Television News in Japan: A Production Study | Department of Anthropology | Columbia University |
| 2000 | Leila Madge | The Making of the “Wise Mother”: Gender, Education and Civic Activism in Modern Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, San Diego |
| 2000 | G. A. McCreery | Redefined Selves: Individuality and Community in Post-Bubble Japan | Department of Anthropology | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| 2000 | Debra Jane Occhi | Namida, Sake, and Love: Emotional Expressions and Japanese Enka Music | Department of Anthropology | University of California-Davis |
| 2000 | Tanaka Sakurako | The Ainu of Tsugaru: The Indigenous History and Shamanism of Northern Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of British Columbia |
| 2000 | Angels Trias i Valls | Wrapped Gifts: Ritual Prestations and Social Obligations in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Queen’s University-Belfast |
| 2000 | Watanabe Hideo | Japanese Adult Learning: Karaoke Naraigoto | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2000 | Yamamoto Yuji | The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2001 | Linda Irene Angst | In a Dark Time: Community, Memory, and the Making of Ethnic Selves in Okinawan Women’s Narratives | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2001 | Ashikari Mikiko | Urban Middle-Class Japanese Women and Their White Faces: Gender, Ideology and Representation | Department of Anthropology | Cambridge University |
| 2001 | Jennifer Marie Callans | Seeing ‘Japaneseness:’ The Visual in Everyday Life | Department of Anthropology | State University of New York, Stony Brook |
| 2001 | Chiba Naoki | Iranians in the United States and Japan: Self-Imagery and Individual-Collective Dynamics | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois |
| 2001 | Inge Maria Daniels | The Fame of Miyajima: Spirituality, Commodification, and the Tourist Trade of Souvenirs in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University College, University of London |
| 2001 | Fiona Graham | Ideology and Practice: An Ethnographic Study of a Japanese Company in the 1990s | Institute of Social Anthropology | University of Oxford |
| 2001 | Kato Etsuko | Bodies Re-Presenting the Past: Japanese Women and the Tea Ceremony after World War Ii | Department of Anthropology | University of Toronto |
| 2001 | Karen Nakamura | Signing Deaf in Japan: Deaf Identities, Sign Languages, and Minority Social Movement Politics in Modern Japan, 1868-2000 | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2001 | Ozawa Chikako | From Religion to Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Naikan Practice in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Oxford |
| 2001 | Rafael Reyes-Ruiz | The Creation of Latino Culture in Japan: An Ethnography of Spanish-Speaking Latin American Immigrants in Tokyo | Department of Anthropology | New School for Social Research |
| 2001 | Sasagawa Ayumi | Life Choices: University-Educated Mothers in a Japanese Suburb | Department of Anthropology | Oxford Brookes University |
| 2001 | Sensui Hidekazu | Vernacular Okinawa : Identity and Ideology in Contemporary Local Activism | Department of Social Anthropology | University of Oxford |
| 2001 | Cindi Sturtz | “Danseigo Da Zo!” Japanese Men’s Language: Stereotypes, Realities, and Ideologies | Department of Anthropology | University of California-Davis |
| 2002 | Ronald Carle | The Way of the Roof: Heritage Preservation and Tourism Development in the Heart of Japan | Department of Social Anthropology | University of Edinburgh |
| 2002 | John Henry Davis, Jr. | Challenging the State, Embracing the Nation: An Ethnographic Analysis of Human Rights in Japanese Society | Department of Anthropology | Stanford University |
| 2002 | Brenda Robb Jenike | From the Family to the Community: Renegotiating Responsibility for the Care of the Elderly in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2002 | Peter Wynn Kirby | Environment Consciousness and the Politics of Waste in Tokyo: “Nature,” Health, Pollution, and the Predicament of Toxic Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Cambridge |
| 2002 | Kurihara Tomoko | Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space | Department of Anthropology | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 2002 | Abby Rachael Margolis | Samurai beneath Blue Tarps: Doing Homelessness, Rejecting Marginality and Preserving Nation in Ueno Park | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2002 | Christopher Nelson | Fanning the Spark of Hope: Culture, Practice, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa (Japan) | Department of Anthropology | University of Chicago |
| 2002 | Holly Anne Ogren | Bending the “Rules”: Strategic Language Use in Role and Status Negotiation among Women in a Rural Northeastern Japanese Community | Department of Anthropology | University of Texas-Austin |
| 2002 | Marvin Dale Sterling | In the Shadow of the Universal Other: Performative Identifications with Jamaican Culture in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2002 | Joel Floyd Stocker | The “Local” in Japanese Media Culture: Manzai Comedy, Osaka, and Entertainment Enterprise Yoshimoto Kogyo | Department of Anthropology | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2002 | Mukund Subramanian | Travels of Possessed Women on the Brink of Memory: Embodied Faith, Nostalgia and Fear in Modern Japan | Department of Anthropology | Stanford University |
| 2002 | R. Kenji Tierney | Wrestling with Tradition: Sumo, Popular Culture and Trans/Nationalism | Department of Anthropology | University of California-Berkeley |
| 2002 | Wu Yongmei | The Care of the Elderly in Japan | Department of Japanese Studies | University of Hong Kong |
| 2003 | Shawn Morgan Bender | Drumming between Tradition and Modernity: Taiko and Neo-Folk Performance in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, San Diego |
| 2003 | Alyne Elizabeth Delaney | Setting Nets on Troubled Waters: Environment, Economics, and Autonomy among Nori Cultivating Households in a Japanese Fishing Cooperative | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2003 | Lieba Faier | On Being Oyome-San: Filipina Brides and Their Japanese Families in Central Kiso Valley | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2003 | Donald Hoon Ko | The History of Japanese Anthropology from 1868 to 1970’s | Department of Anthropology | Washington University |
| 2003 | David Hunter Slater | Class 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 | Joanne Cullinane | 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 | Kato Keiko | Dysfunction of Functional Drinking: Voices of Japanese Alcoholics’ Wives | Department of Anthropology | Washington State University |
| 2004 | Ruth Martin | Opportunity and Fulfillment: Overseas Transfer and the Japanese Housewife Overseas | Dpartment of Anthropology | 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 Relationships between 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 University of Jerusalem |
| 2005 | Lee Ming-Tsung | Absorbing ‘Japan’ :Transnational Media, Cross-Cultural Consumption, and Identity Practice in Contemporary Taiwan | Department of Social Anthropology | University of Cambridge |
| 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 | School of 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 to Death: 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 |
| 2007 | Konagaya 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 | Vincent Mirza | La Crise Et Le Sens Du Travail Au Japon. Morale, Identite Et Liberte Chez Les Jeunes Adultes De Tokyo | Department of Anthropology | Université de Montréal |
| 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 | Department of Anthropology | State University of New York, 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 | Department of Anthropology | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale |
| 2008 | Jason Allen Danely | Departure and Return: Abandonment, Memorial and Aging in Japan | Department 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 | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois, 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, Manoa |
| 2008 | Minami Midori | Images of the Ainu | Department of Anthropology | State University of New York, 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, 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, Manoa |
| 2008 | Olga Kanzaki Sooudi | The Burdens of an Authentic Life: Urban Modernity, Transational Mobility, 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, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2009 | Valerie Holshouser Barske | Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois, 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 Japan | Department 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 Latin Americans 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 | Department of Anthropology | University of California at Irvine |
| 2010 | Sebastian Boret | From Social to Ecological Immortality: Kinship, Identity and Death in Japanese Tree-Burial | Department of Anthropology | Oxford Brookes University |
| 2010 | Paul A. Christensen | The Fragility of Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawai’i, Manoa |
| 2010 | Blaine Phillip Connor | Transfers and the Private Lives of Public Servants in Japan: Teachers in Nagasaki’s Outer Islands | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2010 | Fukutomi Satomi | Connoisseurship of B-Grade Culture: Consuming Japanese National Food Ramen | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawai’i at Manoa |
| 2010 | Nana Okura Gagné | “Salarymen” in Crisis? The Collapse of Dominant Ideologies and Shifting Identities of Salarymen in Metropolitan Japan | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2010 | Katsuno Hirofumi | Materializing Dreams: Humanity, Masculinity, and the Nation in Contemporary Japanese Robot Culture | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawai’i, Manoa |
| 2010 | Kimura Tadamasa | The Digital Divide as Cultural Practice: A Cognitive Anthropological Exploration of Japan as an ‘Information Society’ | Department of Anthropology | State University of New York, Buffalo |
| 2010 | Christopher David Loy | The Ainu of Northern Japan: Indigeneity, Post-National Politics, Territoriality | Department of Anthropology | State University of New York, Binghamton |
| 2010 | Nona Danielle Moskowitz | Inculcating National Identity: Voices of School and Youth on Chichijima Island, Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Virginia |
| 2010 | Shana Fruehan Sandberg | Embodying Intimacy: Premarital Romantic Relationships, Sexuality, and Contraceptive Use among Young Women in Contemporary Tokyo | Department of Comparative Human Development | University of Chicago |
| 2010 | Takahashi Satsuki | Surviving Modernization: State, Community, and the Environment in Two Japanese Fishing Towns | Department of Anthropology | Rutgers University |
| 2011 | Heather Spector Hallman | Lure of the Intimate: Power Practices in Japanese Adolescent Friendship | Department of Anthropology | University of California, San Diego |
| 2011 | Jennifer E. McDowell | Kokeshi: Continued and Created Traditions (Motivations for a Japanese Folk Art Doll) | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2011 | Murata Akiko | Brokering Culture and Labor: An Anthropological Analysis of It Offshore Labor between Japan and India | Program in Anthropology and Education | Columbia University |
| 2011 | Park Jeehwan | School as Classificatory Machine: Sorting, Socialization and Class in a Japanese Middle School. | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2011 | Bryan R. Rill | Shugendo: Cultivating Spiritual Power and Health in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Florida State University |
| 2011 | James Edward Russell | Cultural Property and Heritage in Japan | Department of Anthropology | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| 2011 | Nathaniel Michael Smith | Right-Wing Activism in Japan and the Politics of Futility | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2011 | Takamori Ayako | Native Foreigners: Japanese Americans in Japan | Department of Anthroplogy | New York University |
| 2011 | Richard Penoyar Weld | Stress in the Workplace: The Idea of the Life Path in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Purdue University |
| 2011 | Daniel White | The Affect-Emotion Gap: Soft Power, Nation Branding, and Cultural Administration in Japan | Department of Anthropology | Rice University |
| 2012 | Anne Stefanie Aronsson | Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2012 | James H. Coates | Being-with Others: An Existential Anthropology of Recent Chinese Migration in Tokyo, Japan | Department of Anthropology | Australian National University |
| 2012 | Kathryn Elissa Goldfarb | Fragile Kinships: Family Ideologies and Child Welfare in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Chicago |
| 2012 | Stanley Bruce Herman | Building Japan: Technology as a Problem-Space for Veridiction, Jurisdiction, and Subjectivation | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2012 | Inoue Chiho Sunakawa | Virtual “Ie” Household: Transnational Family Interactions in Japan and the United States | Department of Anthropology | University of Texas, Austin |
| 2012 | Andrea Elizabeth Murray | Footprints in Paradise: Ethnography of Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 2012 | Robin O’Day | Japanese Irregular Workers in Protest : Freeters, Precarity and the Re-Articulation of Class | Department of Anthropology | University of British Columbia |
| 2012 | Robert Gerard Pontsioen | Tradition in the Making : The Life and Work of Tokyo Craftsmen | Department of Social Anthropology | University of Aberdeen |
| 2012 | Stephen Dixon Robertson | Shobodan: An Ethnographic History of Japan’s Community Fire Brigades | Department of Anthropology | University of Oxford |
| 2012 | Ellen Beth Rubinstein | Diagnosing Deviance: Schizophrenia and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2012 | Matthew Henry Wickens | Survival Strategies of Homeless Men: Home, Scavenging, Work, and Welfare in Tokyo, Japan | Department of Anthropology | American University |
| 2013 | Eric J. Cunningham | The Unseen Forest: Spectacles of Nature and Governance in a Japanese National Forest | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawai’i at Manoa |
| 2013 | Isaac Thomas Gagné | Private Religion and Public Morality: Understanding Cultural Secularism in Late Capitalist Japan | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2013 | Kasai Etsko | Everyday Fascism in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Columbia University |
| 2013 | Iza Kavedžija | Meaning in Life : Tales from Aging Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Oxford |
| 2013 | Mizukawa Jun | The Crisis of Language in Contemporary Japan: Reading, Writing, and New Technology | Department of Anthropology | Columbia University |
| 2013 | Morisawa Tomohiro | Producing Animation : Work, Creativity, and Aspirations in the Japanese Animation Industry | School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography | University of Oxford |
| 2013 | Pamela L. Runestad | Health and Precarity: Living with Hiv in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Hawai’i at Manoa |
| 2013 | Sasaki Koji | The Immigrant Intellectuals: A Historical Ethnography of Japanese-Brazilian Politics, Knowledge, and Virtues | Department of Cultural Anthropology | University of Tokyo |
| 2013 | Ryan Sayre | Preparing for Preparedness: Security, Disaster, and ‘Recursive Modernity’ in Contemporary Japan | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2013 | Heather Anne Swanson | Caught in Comparisons: Japanese Salmon in an Uneven World | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2013 | Beata Switek | Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Lndonesian Hands | Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations | University College |
| 2013 | Wakamatsu Fumitaka | Making of Scientific Whaling: Politics of Conservation, Science, and Culture in Japan | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 2013 | Watanabe Chika | Ambivalent Aspirations: Aid and the Cultural Politics of Proximity in a Japanese Ngo in Burma/Myanmar | Department of Anthropology | Cornell University |
| 2013 | Yamaura Chigusa | Locating Marriageable Communities: Cross-Border Matchmaking between Japan and Northeast China | Department of Anthropology | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick |
| 2014 | Michael Berthin | Touch Future X Robot : Examining Production, Consumption, and Disability at a Social Robot Research Laboratory and a Centre for Independent Living in Japan | Department of Anthropology | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| 2014 | Cho Woo Jeong | The Homeland on the Move: Diasporic Practices of Belonging in Sakhalin Korean Repatriation | Department of Anthropology | Indiana University |
| 2014 | Catherine Anne Claus | Drawing Near: Conservation by Proximity in Okinawa’s Coral Reefs | Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry & Environmental Sciences | Yale University |
| 2014 | Dwayne Emil Dixon | Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan | Department of Anthropology | Duke University |
| 2014 | Meghan Sarah Fidler | Paper People and Digital Memory: Recreating the Public and Private in Japan | Department of Anthropology | Southern Illinois University at Carbondale |
| 2014 | Hamada Shingo | Fishers, Scientists, and Techno-Herring: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Seafood and Marine Stock Enhancement in Hokkaido, Japan | Department of Anthropology | Indiana University |
| 2014 | Kanzaki Sachiyo | Changement Identitaire Et Revendications Régionalistes Du Kansaï Au Japon | Department of Anthropology | Université de Montréal |
| 2014 | Gabriele Koch | The Libidinal Economy of the Japanese Sex Industry: Sexual Politics and Female Labor | Department of Anthropology | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2014 | Oyama Atsuko | Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Arizona |
| 2014 | Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna | Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 2014 | Carla Takaki Richardson | The Long After: Disaster and Information Politics in Post-Quake Kobe, Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2015 | Chang Cheng-Heng | Place-Making under Japan’s Neoliberal Regime: Ethics, Locality, and Community in Rural Hokkaido | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2015 | Greg de St. Maurice | The Kyoto Brand: Protecting Agricultural and Culinary Heritage | Department of Anthropology | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2015 | Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer | National Worlds, Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
| 2015 | Chris Andrew Oliver | Ideologies of Intercultural Communication in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Chicago |
| 2015 | Ono Sayako | Ballet as Liberation: Dreams, Desire and Resistance among Urban Japanese Women | Department of Anthropology | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| 2015 | Grant Jun Otsuki | Human and Machine in Formation: An Ethnographic Study of Communication and Humanness in a Wearable Technology Laboratory in Japan | Department of Anthropology | University of Toronto |
| 2015 | Shana Noelle Ricart | Japan’s Aging Society: The Crisis of Care and the Hope of Prevention | Department of Anthropology | University of Chicago |
| 2015 | Dede Yawa Tete-Rosenthal | African Immigrants in Tokyo: Transnational Performative Identities and Spaces of Belonging | Department of Anthropology | Cornell University |
| 2016 | Klaus K. Yamamoto Hammering | Propriety, Shame, and the State in Post-Fukushima Japan | Department of Anthropology | Columbia University |
| 2016 | Morimoto Ryo | Under Control: Alterity at the Edge of Nuclear Contamination and Containment in Post-Fallout Coastal Fukushima | Department of Anthropology | Brandeis University |
| 2016 | Hiroko Yuri Nonami | The Reception and Transformation of Homeopathy in Japan | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology | University of Oxford |
| 2016 | Esra-Gokce Sahin | Rakugo Humor: The Performance of Memory, Mime & Mockery in Urban Tokyo | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University |
| 2016 | Katharine R. M. Schramm | Paantu: Visiting Deities, Ritual, and Heritage in Shimajiri, Miyako Island, Japan | Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology | Indiana University |
| 2016 | Silke Werth | Japan’s Generation Z on the Move: Moratorium, Maturity and Home-Making | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2017 | Patrick W. Galbraith | The Politics of Imagination: Virtual Regulation and the Ethics of Affect in Japan | Department of Cultural Anthropology | Duke University |
| 2017 | Elizabeth Frances Miles | Men of No Value: Contemporary Japanese Manhood and the Economies of Intimacy | Department of Anthropology | Yale University |
