| 1982 | Shingū: A Japanese Fishing Community by Arne Kalland. Journal of Asian Studies 42(1):166-67. |
| 1982 | Marriage in Changing Japan by Joy Hendry. Man 17(3):573. |
| 1983 | The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg. Journal of Peasant Studies 11(1):119-21. |
| 1985 | Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia ed. by Bayliss-Smith & Wanmali. Quarterly Review of Biology 60(4):549-50. |
| 1985 | Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan by Robert C. Marshall. Journal of Asian Studies 45(1):154-55. |
| 1985 | Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan by Penelope Francks. Monumenta Nipponica 40(3):372-73. |
| 1986 | Okubo Diary: Portrait of a Japanese Valley by Brian Moeran. Asian Folklore Studies 45(2):310-312. |
| 1986 | The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955 by Andrew Gordon. Journal of Social History 20(2):421-423. |
| 1987 | Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Anne Walthall. American Historical Review 92(3):724. |
| 1987 | Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1884 by Herbert Bix and Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan by Stephen Vlastos. Journal of Social History 21(3):555-557. |
| 1988 | Urban Japanese Housewives by Anne E. Imamura and The Japanese Educational Challenge by Merry White. Monumenta Nipponica 43(1):127-130. |
| 1988 | Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan by Frank Upham. Journal of Asian Studies 47(3):656-657. |
| 1989 | Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan by Eleanor Westney. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 19(4):705-707. |
| 1989 | Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Robotics, and the Coming Technopia by Frederik Schodt. Monumenta Nipponica 44(1):133-135. |
| 1990 | Neighborhood Tokyo by Theodore C. Bestor. Journal of Japanese Studies 16(1):192-200. |
| 1990 | The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Ethnohistory 37(1):76-78. |
| 1990 | Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home by Jeremy & Robinson and Gedatsu-kai by Byron Earhart. Journal of Ritual Studies 4(2):413-415. |
| 1990 | Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture, edited by Powers, Katô, and Stronach. Monumenta Nipponica 45(4):506-507. |
| 1991 | Constructs for Understanding Japan, edited by Y. Sugimoto and R. Mouer. Asian Studies Review 14(3):223-224. |
| 1991 | Japanese Agriculture: Patterns of Rural Development by Richard H. Moore. American Anthropologist 93(3):763-764. |
| 1991 | Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomie in Affluent Japan by Sato Ikuya. Monumenta Nipponica 46(4):564-566. |
| 1993 | Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City by Jennifer Robertson. American Historical Review 98(1):220. |
| 1993 | Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Study of Political and Economic Change in a Tôhoku Village by Jackson H. Bailey. Journal of Japanese Studies 19(1):159-163. |
| 1993 | Political Life in Japan by Takako Kishima. American Journal of Sociology 98(6):1479-1480. |
| 1993 | Teenage Tokyo (Boston Children’s Museum exhibit). American Anthropologist 95(2):528-530. |
| 1993 | Othernesses of Japan, edited by Harumi Befu and Josef Kreiner. American Anthropologist 95(3):740. |
| 1993 | Changing Japanese Suburbia by Eyal Ben-Ari. Monumenta Nipponica 48(3):401-403. |
| 1994 | Wrapping Culture by Joy Hendry. Journal of Japanese Studies 20(2):595-598 |
| 1994 | The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America by Merry White. Contemporary Sociology 23(5, September):701-702 |
| 1994 | School to Work Transition in Japan by Kaori Okano. Monumenta Nipponica 49(3):387-389. |
| 1995 | The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan by Thomas Keirstead. Journal of Japanese Studies 21(2):503-511 |
| 1996 | Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan by Kosaku Yoshino. Journal of Japanese Studies 22(1):193-195 |
| 1996 | Japanese Workers in Protest by Christena Turner. American Journal of Sociology 101(4):1120-1122 |
| 1996 | The Postwar Japanese System by William K. Tabb. American Ethnologist 23(1):189-190 |
| 1996 | Ceremony and Ritual in Japan, edited by Jan van Bremen and D. P. Martinez. Journal of Ritual Studies 10(2, Winter):153-154 |
| 1996 | Sociology and Society in Japan by Nozomu Kawamura. Monumenta Nipponica 51(3):391-392 |
| 1999 | “The Brief History of Tradition” [review essay of Mirror of Modernity edited by Stephen Vlastos], Japan Quarterly 46(1, January-March):96-99 |
| 1999 | Life in a Japanese Women’s College by Brian McVeigh. Journal of Japanese Studies 25(2, Summer):486-491 |
| 2000 | Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland by Aviad E. Raz. Journal of Asian Studies 59(2):441-442 |
| 2001 | The Rousing Drum by Scott Schnell. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7(3):. |
| 2000 | Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan by Mark Ravina. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31(4):675-676. |
| 2002 | The Price of Death by Setsuko Kawano. Journal of Japanese Studies 28(1):241-246 |
| 2002 | Japanese Sports by Allen Guttmann and Lee Thompson. Monumenta Nipponica 57(2):42 |
| 2003 | Hegemony of Homogeneity by Harumi Befu. Pacific Affairs 75(4, winter):615-616 |
| 2004 | Games, Sports, and Cultures edited by Noel Dyck. American Anthropologist 106(2, June):406 |
| 2004 | Japan and Its Others by John Clammer. In Pacific Affairs 77(3, Fall) |
| 2005 | Doing Fieldwork in Japan edited by Bestor, Steinhoff, and Lyons-Bestor. In Journal of Japanese Studies 31 (1, Winter):141-145 |
| 2007 | Japan, Sport and Society: Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World, edited by Maguire and Nakayama. In Journal of Japanese Studies 33(1): |
| 2007 | “Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball. In AEMS News and Reviews, Number 27, pages 1-2, 7. |
| 2009 | Olympic Japan, edited by A Niehaus and M Seinsch. In Journal of Japanese Studies 35(1, Winter): 253-257. |
| 2009 | Fish is Our Life, by Peregrine Beckman and Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, by Theodore C. Bestor. In American Anthropologist 111(3):392-393. |
| 2010 | The American Game by John Kelly. In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 16(1): 188-189. |
| 2010 | The 1940 Tokyo Games by Sandra Collins. In Journal of Japanese Studies 36(2): 426-427 |
| 2011 | The Mayor of Aihara, by Simon Partner. In American Historical Review 116(3):781. |
| 2013 | Hard Times in the Hometown, by Martin Dusinberre. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 43(4, Spring): 652-654. |
| 2014 | The Other Face of the Moon, by Claude Levi-Strauss. Journal of Anthropological Research 70(1):171-172 |
| 2015 | Precarious Japan, by Anne Allison. Journal of Anthropological Research 71(3):266-267 |
| 2016 | License to Play by Michal Daliot-Bul and Marathon Japan, by Thomas Havens. Journal of Japanese Studies 42(2): 370-373 |
| 2018 | Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, by Stefan Huebner. Asian Journal of Social Science 46(1-2):211-213 |
