Publications 1. Books Men of Uncertainty: the Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. [Author] Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan, eds J.S. Eades, Tom Gill and Harumi Befu. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Books, 2000. [Co-editor] 2. Papers etc. (English) 2013 "Higashi-Nihon Dai-shinsai no jinruigaku: Tsunami, genpatsu jiko to hisaishatachi no'sono go'" (Anthropology of the Great Eastern Japan Disaster: The tsunami, the nuclear accident and what happened next to the victims). Ed. Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David Slater. Kyoto, Jinbun Shoin. 2005 "Whose problem? Japan's Homeless as an Issue of Local and Central Governance." In The Political Economy of Governance in Japan, ed. Glenn Hook. London and New York Routledge, pp. 192-210. Research paper. PDF 2004 "The Controversy on Homeless People in Japan." In Osaka Shiritsu Daigaku Shakaigaku Nenpo (Sociological Annual of Osaka Municipal University). pp. 3-5. Preface to collection of papers. 2003 "When Pillars Evaporate: Structuring Masculinity on the Japanese Margins." In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, ed. James Roberson and Nobue Suzuki. London: RoutledgeCurzon, pp. 144-161. Research paper. PDF 2001 "Homelessness: A Slowly Dawning Recognition." In Social Science Japan, Issue 21, September, pp. 17-20. Short article. PDF 2001 "Unconventional Moralities, Tolerance and Containment in Urban Japan." In Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and the System, ed. Italo Pardo. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 229-256. Research paper. PDF 2000 "Yoseba and Ninpudashi: Changing Patterns of Employment on the Fringes of the Japanese Economy." In Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan, (see above), 2000, pp. 123-142. Research paper. PDF 1999 "Reading Tsurumi Kazuko Reading Minakata Kumagusu." In Ningengaku Kenkyu (Research on Human Studies; proceedings of the Institute for Human and Cultural Research, Kyoto Bunkyo University) Vol. 1, pp.125-130. Symposium paper. PDF 1999 "Wage-Hunting on the Margins of Urban Japan." In Lilies of the Field, eds. Sophie Day, Evthymios Papataxiarchis and Michael Stewart. Boulder, Co. and Oxford: Westview Press, pp.119-136. Research paper. PDF 1998 "Transformational Magic: Some Japanese Superheroes and Monsters." In The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures, ed. D. P. Martinez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.33-55. Research paper. PDF 1996 "Kon Wajiro, Modernologist." In Japan Quarterly, Vol. 43, No.2, pp.198-207. Critical essay. PDF 1994 "Sanya Street Life Under the Heisei Recession." In Japan Quarterly, Vol. 41, No.3, July-September 1994, pp.270-286. Semi-academic reportage. PDF 1994 "Streetwinter." In Tokyo Business Today, April 1994, pp.4-10. Magazine article. 3. Papers etc. (Japanese) 2007 "NIMBY Gensho to Kaihi Kodo" (The NIMBY Phenomenon and Avoidance Behaviour), in Haijo suru Shakai, Juyo suru Shakai: Gendai Kegare-ron (Exclusionary Society, Tolerant Society: Contemporary Thinking on Ritual Pollution). Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, pp. 2-32. 2006 "Nihon no Homuresu no Jijo to Sore ni kan-suru Gyosei Taisaku - Ch'iki-betsu, Kokusaiteki-na Hikaku Kenkyu" (The Circumstances of Homeless People in Japan and the Governmental Response: Regional and International Comparative Research.) In Toransunashonariti Kenkyu 4: Nihon o Koete (Transnationality Research, Vol. 4: Beyond Japan), pp. 172-209. Osaka: Osaka University. Research paper. PDF 2004 "Fuantei Rodo to Homuresu: Toshi no Sanbutsu" (Insecure Labor and Homelessness: Products of the City). In Sekine Yasumasa ed., Toshiteki Naru Mono no Genzai (The Present Condition of Urbanism), pp. 445-471. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. Research paper. 2004 "Eigo no Yoseba Bunken" (English Language Studies of Yoseba). In Japan Association for the Study of Yoseba ed., Yoseba Bunken 300-sen (300 Contributions to Yoseba Literature), pp. 429-447. Tokyo: Renga Shobo Shinsha, 2004. Survey article. PDF 2004 "Sheruta Bunka no Tanjo: Homuresu Jiritsu Shien-ho kara 2-nenkan" (The Birth of Shelter Culture: Two Years On From the Homeless Independence Support Law." In Meiji Gakuin Daigaku Kokusai Gakubu Fuzoku Kenkyujo Nenpo (Annual of the Meiji Gakuin University Institute for International Research). Vol. 7: 55-73. Research paper. PDF 2002 "Amerikan Homuresu: Beikoku Hasshin no Homuresu Bunken: 1994-nen ~ 1999-nen" (American Homeless: American Writing on Homelessness, 1994 to 1999). In Yoseba, Vol. 15: 113-141. Survey article. 2001 "'Kanri Shakai' Saikento" (The 'Control Society' Revisited). In Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan Kenkyu Hokoku (Research Reports from the National Museum of History and Folklore Studies), Vol. 91: Sei/Ro/Shi: Nihonjin no Jinseikan - Uchi kara no Me, Soto kara no Me (Life/Old Age/Death: Japanese Views of Life - Views from Home and Abroad). 2001. Conference paper. PDF 2001 "'Churu Homuresu' no Sakaku: Saikin no Homuresu Rupo o Yomu" (The Myth of Middle-class Homelessness: Reading Recent Reportage on Homelessness). In Yoseba Vol. 14, pp.180-187. Review essay. 2000 "Yamaguchi san no Fumetsu Kikai: Yoseba Rodosha no Oi to Shi no Atsukaikata" (Mr. Yamaguchi's Immortality Machine: How Yoseba Workers Deal with Old Age and Death). In Ojoko: Nihonjin no Sei, Ro, Shi (On Peaceful Passing: The Life, Old Age and Death of the Japanese), eds. Miyata Noboru and Shintani Takanori, pp. 97-111. Tokyo: Shogakukan. Research paper. 2000 "Minami Kariforunia Hiyatoi Rodo Purojekuto: Aberu Varenzuera-shi no Sagyo" (The Southern California Day Labour Project: The Work of Abel Valenzuela). In Yoseba Vol. 13, 2000, pp.131-134. Review article. 1999 "Majinaru-na Otokotachi no Hikaku Kenkyu: Nihon no Yoseba, Amerika no Sukiddo Ro" (Comparative Research on Marginal Men: the Japanese Yoseba, the American Skid Row). In Ningen, Bunka, Kokoro (People, Culture, Mind: Research Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University), Vol.2, pp.37-52. Research paper. PDF 1999 "Yoseba no Otokotachi: Kaisha, Kekkon Nashi no Seikatsusha" (The Men of the Yoseba: Those Who Live Without Company or Marriage). In Kyodo Kenkyu: Danseiron (Group Research: Man Theory), eds. Nishikawa Yoko and Ogino Miho. Kyoto: Jinbun Sho'in, pp.17-43. Research paper. PDF 1998 "Eikoku-kei Jinruigaku kara Mita Nihon: Rochi no 'Dobutsu Kategori' o Rei to shite" (Japan as Seen from Anthropology of the British School: Leach's 'Animal Categories' as an Example). In Ningen, Bunka, Kokoro (People, Culture, Mind: Research Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University), Vol. 1, pp.137-149. Research paper. PDF 4. Book Reviews 2008 (forthcoming) Journal of Japanese Studies: David Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2005) 2007 Social Science Japan Journal: 'On Day Laboring and Homelessness in Contemporary Japan' Review essay covering Hideo Aoki Japan's Underclass (Melbourne, Trans Pacific Press, 2006); Miki Hasegawa, We Are Not Garbage! The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002 (Routledge 2006); and Shiro Oyama, A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Labourer (Cornell University Press, 2005). Journal of Japanese Studies: Gesine Foljanty-Jost, ed. Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the 'Crisis' (Brill, 2003). PDF 2006 Monumenta Nipponica: Lonny E. Carlile, Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement (University of Hawaii Press, 2005). 2003 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman, Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness. (Berghahn Books, 1999). 2002 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: Robert Desjarlais, Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: Michael Rowe, Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers. (University of California Press, 1999). 2001 Japan Forum (UK)：Yoko Sellek, Migrant Labour in Japan (Palgrave, 2001). Monumenta Nipponica (Japan): John Lie, Multiethnic Japan (Harvard University Press, 2001). 2000 Anthropology of Work Review (US): David L. McConnell, Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program (California UP, 2000). 1999 Monumenta Nipponica (Japan): Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni: Packaged Japaneseness - Weddings, Business and Brides (Curzon Press, 1997). PDF Asian Affairs（UK）: Nimura Kazuo, The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan (Duke UP, 1997). 1998 Japan Forum (UK): Hiromi Mori, Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan (Macmillan, 1997). PDF Asian Affairs (UK): S. Stevens, On the Margins of Japanese Society (Routledge, 1997); Edward Fowler, San'ya Blues (Cornell UP, 1996); Industrial and Labour Relations Review (US): Edward Fowler, San'ya Blues (Cornell UP, 1996). 5. Book translations Academic Books Catch-up Industrialization: The Trajectory and Prospects of Asian Economies, by Akira Suehiro. Singapore University Press. Forthcoming. The Lives of Young Koreans in Japan, by Yasunori Fukuoka. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Books, 2000. Novels Shot By Both Sides, by Meisei Goto. Forthcoming; publisher undecided. Translation of Hasamiuchi, 1973. Commissioned under the Japan Literature Publication Project (JLPP) run by the Cultural Affairs Agency. The Hundred Yen Singer, by Naomi Suenaga. London: Peter Owen, 2006. Translation of Hyakuen Shingaa Gokuraku Tenshi (1997). Commissioned under the Japan Literature Publication Project (JLPP) run by the Cultural Affairs Agency Tokyo Tango, by Rika Yokomori. London and New York: Duckworth Overlook, 2006. Commissioned under the Japan Literature Publication Project (JLPP) run by the Cultural Affairs Agency. Return above |
