This is a work in progress, I’ll keep making additions. Feel free to leave any suggestions I might have missed.
1930s
John Embree - Suye Mura: A Japanese Village (1936)
1940s
Ruth Benedict – The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946)
1950s
Richard Beardsley, John W. Hall, and Robert Ward – Village Japan (1959)
Ronald Dore – City Life in Japan: Life in a Tokyo Ward (1958)
1960s
David Plath – The After Hours: Modern Japan and the Search for Enjoyment (1964)
Ezra Vogel – Japan’s New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb (1963)
1970s
Robert Cole – Japanese Blue Collar: The Changing Tradition (1973)
Chie Nakane – Japanese Society (1970)
Takie Lebra – Japanese Patterns of Behavior (1976)
1980s
Theodore Bestor – Neighborhood Tokyo (1989)
Walter Edwards – Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal (1989)
Margaret Lock – East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (1980)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney – Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View (1984)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney – Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual (1989)
Robert Smith – Japanese Society: Tradition, Self, and the Social Order (1985)
Robert Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell – The Women of Suye Mura (1982)
1990s
Anne Allison – Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994)
Marilyn Ivy – Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan (1995)
Dorinne Kondo – Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (1990)
Robin LeBlanc – Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (1999)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney – Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time (1994)
Yuko Ogasawara – Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies (1998)
James Roberson – Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers (1998)
Jennifer Robertson – Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City (1991)
Jennifer Robertson - Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (1998)
Sonia Ryang – North Koreans in Japan: Language, Identity, and Ideology (1997)
Ikuya Sato – Kamikaze Bikers: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan (1991)
Carolyn Stevens – On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteer Work with the Urban Underclass (1997)
Merry White – The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America (1993)
2000s
Anne Allison – Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (2000)
Anne Allison – Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (2006)
E. Taylor Atkins – Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001)
Harumi Befu – Hegemony of Homogeneity (2001)
Theodore Bestor – Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (2004)
Amy Borovoy – The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Dependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan (2005)
Ian Condry – Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (2006)
Tom Gill – Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan (2001)
Karen Kelsky – Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (2001)
Robin LeBlanc – The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics (2009)
John Lie – Multiethnic Japan (2004)
Daniel Touro Linger – No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan (2001)
Laura Miller – Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (2006)
Joshua Hotaka Roth – Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan (2002)
Katherine Rupp – Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies (2003)
Laura Spielvogel – Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in a Tokyo Fitness Club (2003)
John Traphagan – Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan (2000)
Merry White – Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (2002)
Christine Yano – Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song (2002)
2010s
Junko Kitanaka – Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress (2011)
Gabriella Lukacs - Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan (2010)
Jennifer Prough – Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga (2010)
Marvin Sterling – Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan (2010)
Merry White – Coffee Life in Japan (2012)
