| 1982 |
Water Control in Tokugawa Japan: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600-1870. Ithaca: Cornell University, China-Japan Program East Asia Papers #31. |
| 1982 |
Irrigation Management in Japan: A Critical Review of Japanese Social Science Research. Ithaca: Cornell University, Rural Development Committee Occasional Monograph Series/ China-Japan Program East Asia Papers #30 (joint publication). |
| 1985 |
Deference and Defiance in 19th-Century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
| 2000 |
Japanese Civilization in the Modern World XIV: Information and Communication. Editor, with Umesao Tadao and Kubō Masatoshi. Senri Ethnological Studies, Number 52. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
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| 2004 |
Fanning the Flames: Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan. Editor. Albany: SUNY Press |
| 2007 |
This Sporting Life: Sports and Body Culture in Modern Japan. Editor, with Sugimoto Atsuo. CEAS Occasional Publications. Volume 1. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies.
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| 2009 |
Golf at Yale: The Players, the Teams, the Course. With John A. Godley. New Haven: Marvelwood Press.
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| 2011 |
The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports. Editor, with Susan Brownell. CEAS Occasional Publications. Volume 3. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies.
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| 2014 |
The New Geopolitics of Sport in East Asia. Editor. London: Routledge. |
| 2018 |
Hanshin Tigers Baseball: A Professional Sportsworld in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. |
