Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies

Harvard University
352 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

TEL: (617) 496-6539 (no voice mail)
FAX: (617) 496-8355
E-MAIL: bestor@wjh.harvard.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  agricultural trade; consumer behavior; distribution; fishing industry; food marketing and distribution; marketing, distribution; retail industry; small business, family firms; structural trade impediments; trade relations; wholesale structure
• HISTORY
  business history; cultural history; historical society; social history; urban history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  social and political change
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  impact of globalization on Japanese domestic society; community organizations and development; contemporary society; cultural and social change; cultural anthropology; food culture; gender, sex roles, women; marriage, family, kinship; minority and ethnic groups; organizational decision-making; organizations and institutions; popular culture; social control; social structure; social trends in trade issues; urban society and urbanization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 1999; Chair, Governing Board, Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, 1998 - present; Visiting Professor, Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, 1997 - 98; Acting Director, East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1996 - 97; Associate Professor, Anthropology and Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1993 - present; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1986-93; Program Director, Japanese and Korean Studies Programs, Social Science Research Council, 1983-86.

IN JAPAN: 1979-81; 1988-89, 1990-91 - research; 1997-98 - teaching and research; 1973-76 - fellowship; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Tokyo's Marketplace: Culture and Trade in the Tsukiji Wholesale Fish Market (forthcoming); Neighborhood Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 1989); "Tokyo Mom-and-Pop," The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn, 1990); "Lifestyles and Popular Culture in Urban Japan," Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture (ed. Powers et al.) (Greenwood Press, 1989).