Fieldwork Methods in Asian Studies: Japan

Selected reading lists:

Books

Theodor Bestor, Patricia Steinhoff, and Victoria Bestor, eds,
Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Honolulu: UH Press, 2003

Fieldwork and surveys

Steve Clark (n.d.)
Tokyo Archives and Research Trips
Yale University

Elise Edwards (2007)
AN ETHICS FOR WORKING UP?: Japanese Corporate Scandals and Rethinking Lessons about Fieldwork
Critical Asian Studies 39:4

Sabine Frühstück (2007)
NEW CONVERSATIONS, NEW TRUTHS: Commentary on "Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics".
Critical Asian Studies 39:4

Ann-Elise lewallen (2007)
BONES OF CONTENTION: Negotiating Anthropological Ethics within Fields of Ainu Refusal
Critical Asian Studies 39:4

Bridget Love
FRAUGHT FIELDSITES: Studying Community Decline and Heritage Food Revival in Rural Japan
Critical Asian Studies 39:4

Levi McLaughlin (2010)
All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher.
The Asia-Pacific Journal

H.D. Smith (1995)
Doing Research in Japan

Yamaguchi, Tomomi (2007)
IMPARTIAL OBSERVATION AND PARTIAL PARTICIPATION: Feminist Ethnography in Politically Charged Japan.
Critical Asian Studies 39:4

Other

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fellow Plaza

Kristina Troost
Doing Research in Japan