Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan / Theodore C. Bestor ; Patricia G. Steinhoff ; Victoria Lyon Bestor |
Starting Out |
Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker / Merry Isaacs White |
New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site |
From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location / Joy Hendry |
Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups / Helen Hardacre |
Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze / Ian Reader |
Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes |
Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research / Samuel Coleman |
JET Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time / David L. Mcconnell |
Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office / David T. Johnson |
In Search of the Japanese State / Sheila A. Smith |
Doing Media Research in Japan / Ellis S. Krauss |
Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access |
Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists' Heaven and Hell / Mary C. Brinton |
Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey / Suzanne Culter |
Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process / John Creighton Campbell |
Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics / David M. Arase |
Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan / Andrew Gordon |
Outsiders in Insiders' Networks |
Unraveling the Web of Song / Christine R. Yano |
Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs / Glenda S. Roberts |
Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork |
Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth |
Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research / Robert J. Smith |
Digital Resources and Fieldwork / Appendix: |
Glossary |
Bibliography |
About the Contributors |
Index |
Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan / Theodore C. Bestor ; Patricia G. Steinhoff ; Victoria Lyon Bestor |
Starting Out |
Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker / Merry Isaacs White |