[Ordered by year of publication]
(1982) Review of Joy Hendry, Marriage in Changing Japan. In Man 17(3): 573.
(1982) Review of Arne Kalland, Shingū: A Japanese Fishing Community. In Journal of Asian Studies 42(1): 166-167.
(1983) Review of Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller. In Journal of Peasant Studies 11(1): 119-121.
(1985) Review of Bayliss-Smith & Wanmali eds., Understanding green revolutions: Agrarian change and development planning in south Asia. In Quarterly Review of Biology 60(4): 549-550.
(1985) Review of Penelope Francks, Technology and agricultural development in pre-war Japan. In Monumenta Nipponica 40(3): 372-373.
(1985) Review of Robert C. Marshall, Collective decision making in rural Japan. In Journal of Asian Studies 45(1): 154-155.
(1986) Review of Andrew Gordon, The evolution of labor relations in Japan: heavy industry, 1853-1955. In Journal of Social History 20(2): 421-423.
(1986) Review of Brian Moeran, Okubo Diary: Portrait of a Japanese Valley. In Asian Folklore Studies 45(2): 310-312.
(1987). Review of Ann Walthall, Social protest and popular culture in eighteenth-century Japan. In American Historical Review 92(3): 724.
(1987). Review of Herbert Bix, Peasant protest in Japan, 1590-1884, and Stephen Vlastos, Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa Japan. In Journal of Social History 21(3): 555-557.
(1988) Japanology bashing, a review essay of ____ . In American Ethnologist 15(2): 172-176.
(1988) Review of Anne E. Imamura, Urban Japanese housewives: at home and in the community, and Merry White, The Japanese educational challenge. In Monumenta Nipponica 43(1): 127-130.
(1988) Review of Frank Upham, Law and social change in postwar Japan. In Journal of Asian Studies 47(3): 656-657.
(1989) Review of Eleanor Westney, Imitation and innovation: the transfer of western organizational patterns to Meiji Japan. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 19(4): 705-707.
(1989) Review of Frederik Schodt, Inside the robot kingdom: Japan, robotics, and the coming technopia. In Monumenta Nipponica 44(1): 133-135.
(1990). Review of Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, The monkey as mirror: symbolic transformations in Japanese history and ritual. In Ethnohistory 37(1): 76-78.
(1990). Review of Michael Jeremy and M.E. Robinson, Ceremony and symbolism in the Japanese home, and H. Byron Earhart, Gedatsu-kai and religion in contemporary Japan: returning to the center. In Journal of Ritual Studies 4(2): 413-415.
(1990). Review of Powers, Katō, and Stronach (eds.), Handbook of Japanese popular culture. In Monumenta Nipponica 45(4): 506-507.
(1990). Review of Theodore C. Bestor, Neighborhood Tokyo. In Journal of Japanese Studies 16(1): 192-200.
(1991). Review of Ikuya Satō, Kamikaze biker: parody and anomie in affluent Japan. In Monumenta Nipponica 46(4): 564-566.
(1991). Review of Richard Moore, Japanese agriculture: patterns of rural development. American Anthropologist 93(3): 763-764.
(1991). Review of Sugimoto and Mouer (eds.), Constructs for understanding Japan. Asian Studies Review 14(3): 223-224.
(1993). Review of Befu and Kreiner (eds.), Othernesses of Japan. American Anthropologist 95(3): 740.
(1993). Review of Eyal Ben-Ari, Changing Japanese suburbia. Monumenta Nipponica 48(3): 401-403.
(1993). Review of Jackson H. Bailey, Ordinary people, extraordinary lives: a study of political and economic change in a Tōhoku village. Journal of Japanese Studies 19(1): 159-163.
(1993). Review of Jennifer Robertson, Native and newcomer: making and unmaking a Japanese city. American Historical Review 98(1): 220.
(1993). Review of Takako Kishima, Political life in Japan. American Journal of Sociology 98(6): 1478-1480.
(1993). Review of Teenage Tokyo [Boston Children’s Museum exhibit]. American Anthropologist 95(2): 528-530.
(1996). Review of Yoshino, Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan. Journal of Japanese Studies 22(1): 193-195.
(1999). Review of Brian McVeigh, Life in a Japanese Women’s College. Journal of Japanese Studies 25(2): 486-492.
(2002). Review of Suzuki, The Price of Death. Journal of Japanese Studies 28(1): 241-246.
(2005). Review of Bestor et al. (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Japan. Journal of Japanese Studies 31(1): 141-145.
(2007). Review of Koko yakyū: High School Baseball. AEMS News and Reviews (27): 1-2, 7.
(2007). Review of Japan, Sport and Society: Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World, edited by Maguire and Nakayama. Journal of Japanese Studies 33(2): 479-482.
(2009). Review of Beckman (director), Fish is Our Life; Theodore Bestor, Tsukiji. American Anthropologist 111(3): 392-393.
(2009). Review of Olympic Japan by A Niehaus and M Seinsch. Journal of Japanese Studies 35(1): 253-257.
(2010). Review of John Kelly, The American Game. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 16(1): 188-189.
(2010). Review of Sandra Collins, The 1940 Tokyo Games. Journal of Japanese Studies 36(2): 426-427.
(2011). Review of The Mayor of Aihara by Simon Partner. American Historical Review 116(3): 782.
(2013). Review of Hard Times in the Hometown, by Martin Dusinberre. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 43(4): 652-654.
(2014). Review of The Other Side of the Moon by Claude Levi-Strauss. Journal of Anthropological Research 70(1): 171-172.
(2015). Review of Precarious Japan by Anne Allison. Journal of Anthropological Research 71(3): 266-267.
(2016). Review of License to Play by Mikal Daliot-Bul and Marathon Japan by Thomas Havens. Journal of Japanese Studies 42(2): 367-371.
(2018). Review of Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia by Stefan Huebner. Asian Journal of Social Sciences 46(1-2): 211-213.
