A | What was the Anthropology of Shōwa Japan About?
“Introduction” to Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Pages 14-18. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 2019.
“Directions in the Anthropology of Contemporary Japan,” Annual Review of Anthropology 20:395-431, 1991
B | Anthropologists of Shōwa Japan
“Ethnography of the Emergent: Revisiting Ezra Vogel’s Japan’s New Middle
Class (1963)” Paper for the panel on “Reconsidering Ethnographies of Japan and Korea,” American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, 2008
“Introduction: Looking Back at a Book that Looks Forward,” in Ezra Vogel, Japan’s New Middle Class [Third edition], pages xiii-xxi. Lanham, MD and Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013
“Review essay: Theodore C. Bestor, Neighborhood Tokyo,” Journal of Japanese
Studies 16(1):192-200, 1990
“Ruth Benedict and Chie Nakane: Reflections on the Tensions of Japan Anthropology,” paper presented at the panel on “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword at Fifty: A Critical Retrospective on Anthropological Theory, Area Studies, and Public Policy,” American Anthropological Association, 95th annual meeting, San Francisco, November 21, 1996
“David William Plath (1930-2022).” Asia Now, February 8, 2023. At https://www.asianstudies.org/david-william-plath-1930-2022/
“The Last Benedictine in Japan Anthropology.” In Susan O. Long (editor), David W. Plath and Japan Anthropology, published online, 2025
C | Mainstream Consciousness and Beyond
“Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Ideologies, Institutions, and Everyday Life.” In Andrew Gordon (ed.), Postwar Japan as History, pp. 189-216. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993
“Japan’s Debates about an Aging Society: The Later Years in the Land of the Rising Sun,” in Lee Cohen (ed.), Justice Across Generations: What Does it Mean? pp. 153-168. Washington: Public Policy Institute, American Association of Retired Persons, 1993
“At the Limits of New Middle Class Japan: Beyond ‘Mainstream Consciousness,’” in Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari (eds.), Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century, pages 232-254. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002
(With Merry I. White) “Students, Slackers, Singles, Seniors, and Strangers: Transforming a Family-Nation,” in Peter J. Katzenstein and Tadashi Shiraishi (editors), Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism, pages 63-82. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
