Doing Fieldwork in Japan

About the Contributors

David M. Arase is associate professor of political science at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate School. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been affiliated with Tokyo University, and most recently with the Institute of Social Science at Tsukuba University, working on his current project on economic cooperation around the Sea of Japan. Arase is the author of Buying Power: The Political Economy of Japan’s Foreign Aid (Lynne Rienner, 1995). Theodore C. Bestor is professor of anthropology and Japanese studies, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has been affiliated with Tokyo Töritsu University. His latest book, Tokyo’s Marketplace (University of California Press, 2004), is an ethnographic study of the massive Tsukiji seafood market, and he is working on a companion project, tentatively titled Global Sushi, which examines the economic, cultural, and environmental impacts of the worldwide reach of Japanese seafood markets. His web site is: www.fas.harvard.edu/rijs/Bestor. Victoria Lyon Bestor is the executive director of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. She holds a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in Asian Studies and divides her career between nonprofit administration and research and writing on philanthropy and civil society in Japan. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at Döshisha University and is currently completing research for The Rockefeller Legacy in Japan. A B O U T T H E C O N T R I B U T O R S Mary C. Brinton is professor of sociology at Harvard University. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Washington. Her principal research areas are gender inequality, education, and labor markets. She has been affiliated with Keio, Hitotsubashi , and Tokyo Universities and the Japan Institute of Labour and has also done research in South Korea. Most recently, she was the editor of Women’s Working Lives in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2001). John Creighton Campbell is professor of political science at the University of Michigan. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University. An expert on decision making and public policy in Japan, he has written extensively on social policy, including How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (Princeton University Press, 1992). His web site is: http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/ faculty/jcampbell.html. Samuel Coleman recently completed the master’s degree program in social work at California State University, Long Beach, preparing for clinical social work and research addressing poverty and oppression. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and has been affiliated with the University of Tokyo, the Osaka Bioscience Institute, and the Japanese National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. He is currently writing Who’s Doing What to Whom, and Why? Emics and Etics for Social Workers. Suzanne Culter, Ph.D., R.N., is currently working for the American Red Cross. Her Ph.D. in sociology is from the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa, and in Japan she was affiliated with Nihon and Tokyo Women’s Universities. She is the author of Managing Decline: Japan’s Coal Industry Restructuring and Community Response (University of Hawai‘i Press, 1999) and is currently working on institutional care for homeless women and children in Japan and the United States. Andrew Gordon is the Folger Professor of History and director of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, from which he also holds a Ph.D. in history and East Asian languages. He has been affiliated with Tokyo and Hösei Universities and is the author of A Modern History of Japan (Oxford University Press, 2003). His web site is: www.oxfordjapan.org. Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University. Hardacre received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. A specialist on new religions in Japan, she has written recently on Aum Shinrikyo and is the author of Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (University of California Press, 1997) and the editor of The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States (E. J. Brill, 1998). Joy Hendry is professor of social anthropology and director of the Europe Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University. Her D.Phil. is from Oxford University, and she has been affiliated with Tokyo, Hitotsubashi, and Keio Universities . She is the author of The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural 398 | Contributors [3.21...