Doing Fieldwork in Japan

Index

Abashiri, 318 academic affiliation, 73, 79, 82, 111, 114–115, 122, 125, 158, 159, 227, 253, 279, 345. See also sponsorship academic disciplines, 2, 4, 6–8, 13, 15, 198, 367. See also anthropology; economics; history; political science; sociology academic literature, 157, 243–244, 252, 296, 354; Japanese, 272 access, 10–16, 21–22, 34, 37, 42–48, 74, 78–82, 86, 101, 109, 112–113, 120, 122, 126–127, 132–135, 140–142, 144–147, 154, 157–161, 170, 173, 176–181, 196, 205–207, 215, 219, 225, 227, 234, 251–252, 255, 259, 262–265, 270, 279, 289–290, 295–298, 304, 307, 312–313, 317–320, 328, 337–340, 344, 369, 370–372; denied, 15, 125, 234, 260, 299, 304; institutional, 15–16, 204–205; public, 203. See also academic affiliation; data, access; entry points; introductions; networks ; personal connections; sponsorship age, 10, 197, 216, 226, 289; cohort, 25–28, 33, 79, 202–203; of researcher, 23, 74, 83, 110, 215, 225–226, 291, 336 agriculture, 359–360. See also rural Japan; village aid agencies, 252–253, 257, 260. See also government agencies Allied Occupation of Japan, 112, 165, 354 Allison, Anne, 3 amae (dependency), 291 Ames, Walter, 140 ancestry, 339, 340–342, 345 anonymity, 116, 131, 199, 237. See also informed consent; pseudonyms; research ethics anthropology, 2, 6, 8, 23, 56, 58, 114, 119, 124, 126, 295, 330, 336 I N D E X appointments, 57, 60, 130, 140, 179, 181–183, 235, 237, 245, 283, 305. See also access; introductions; entry points; interviews Arase, David M., 12, 248, 260 archival resources, 10, 82, 262, 263, 264, 370. See also archives; data archives archives, 1, 12, 79, 98, 167, 185–187, 258–264, 272, 373; newspaper, 266; photo, 368, 370 area studies, 4–8, 198. See also cultural context; interdisciplinary research and training; Japanese studies Ashkenazi, Michael, 4 AskEASL (Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian), 369–373 Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 7, 88, 137, 293, 371 associations: business, 256; industry, 258; trade federations, 318, 324, 369 auctions, 321–322, 325 Aum Shinrikyö, 103–104. See also religion automobile, 336, 353–354, 358–359 Ayukawa, 317 Bailey, Jackson H., 3, 374 Bayley, David, 145 Befu, Harumi, 4 Bernstein, Gail Lee, 3 Bestor, Theodore C., 1, 6, 12, 315, 333 Bestor, Victoria Lyon, 1, 7, 13, 332, 367 bias, 45, 122, 206, 251. See also loyalty; neutrality; research, objectivity birth control, 109–111, 114–115, 117–119, 123 board of education, 60, 126, 130–134 books, 42, 43, 46, 233, 242–244, 250, 259, 261, 289; in Japanese, 104; nonacademic, 44 bookstores, 44, 242; specialized, 43–44, 46 boundaries, 149, 262, 272, 284, 321, 324, 327 Brazil, 300, 335, 338, 341, 347, 349 Brinton, Mary C., 7, 11, 211 buchö (division head), 130. See also section chief Buddhism, 74, 78, 82, 341 Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S.), 199 bureaucracy, 1, 5, 10–12, 16, 68, 114, 127, 140, 142, 151, 160, 162, 229, 232, 235, 239, 240–243, 248–254, 258–260, 298–299, 304. See also government offices; local government ; local government offices; Ministry of . . . bureaucrats, 11–12, 121, 126–129, 136, 143, 156, 158, 161, 164–166, 171–173, 231, 238, 251, 253, 264, 298, 321, 330, 344, 350. See also interviewing; interviews business card (meishi), 111, 114, 122, 159, 182, 235, 236. See also etiquette; introductions business firms, 2, 202, 204, 206, 253, 256, 258, 260, 262, 283, 298. See also family, business; multinational corporations; private sector camera, 316–317, 323, 355, 359, 365. See also photographs Campbell, John Creighton, 12, 128, 229, 246 case studies, 65, 201, 204–205, 230, 259. See also research; research methods CD recordings, 259, 278, 286, 287 cell phones, 33, 51 census data, 197, 241; Census Bureau, 199, 200 chance, 11, 22, 49, 61, 89–90, 97–104, 142, 169, 284, 287, 316, 328, 362. See also serendipity child care, 81, 298, 360 children, 23, 25–26, 29–30, 34–35, 78, 402 | Index 203, 227, 280–282, 307, 342, 364; of researcher, 279–281, 290, 312. See also teenagers Chitose, 167 Christian, 42, 43, 75 citizens, Japanese, 44, 166, 170–173, 184, 298. See also civil society civil society, 7, 252, 256, 299, 304, 369. See also associations; social movements CLAIR (Council of Local Authorities for International Relations), 125–129, 133, 136. See also JET Program coal miners, 216–217, 221...