Doing Fieldwork in Robotland:  Combining Longue Durée with Rapid Ethnography (Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2024)

Animaloïdes: Je suis moi parce que mon petit aibo me connaît (Dictionnaire historique et critique des animaux, 2024)

Non, Les Japonais ne vivent pas avec les robots, 2022 (Interview in Tempura, un magazine sur le Japon)

Househusband as an Agent of Pronatalism in Japan, 2022

Technologies of Kokoro: Imagineering Human-Robot Co-Existence. Perspectives from Japan. (Robots, Religion, Emotion), 2022

Glamorized Exploitation: Visual Images of Meiji-period “Factory Girls” (jokō), 2022

Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan, 2022

From Tiramisù to #MeToo: Triangulations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Heisei Japan (1989-2019), 2022

Robot Theater (Robotto engeki) in Japan: Staging Science Fiction Futures, 2021

Gotai: Corporeal Aesthetics and Robotic Exoskeletons in Japan, 2020

No Place for Robots: Reassessing the Bukimi no Tani (“Uncanny Valley”), 2020

Robots and Religiosity, 2019

Edible Eugenics: Dietary Reform and Nation-building in Modern Japan, 2018

Robot Reincarnation: Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals, 2018

Japan’s Gender-Bending History, 2017

An Oscar for Wakamaru: Robots, Gender, and Performance, 2016

Human Rights Vs. Robot Rights: Forecasts from Japan, 2014

From Uniqlo to NGOs: The Problematic “Culture of Giving” in Inter-Disaster Japan, 2012

Hemato-nationalism: The Past, Present, and Future of “Japanese Blood”, 2011

Rubble, Radiation, and Robots, 2011

Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan, 2011

Robots of the Rising Sun, 2010

Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan, 2010

The Erotic Grotesque Nonsense of Superflat: “Happiness” as Pathology in Japan Today, 2010

Eugenics in Japan: Sanguinous Repair, 2010

Reveille for Anthropologists. Introduction: Anthropologists and War, 2010

Relentless Presentism: Life and Art in the Superflat Dimension, 2009

Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theatre, 2009

Ema kara yomi sōzō no kyōdōtai: senchūki nihon ni okeru ema to sensōteki niritsuhaihansei, 2009 (Japanese translation of Emaーgined Community)

Ema-gined Community: Votive Tablets (ema) and Strategic Ambivalence in Wartime Japan, 2008

Yūseigakuteki shokuminchishugi: Nihon ni okeru chi no ideorogī (Eugenic Colonialism: Japanese Blood Ideology), 2007

Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Humanoid Robots and the Posthuman Family, 2007

Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage, 2005

Introduction: Sexualizing Anthropology’s Fields (in Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities), 2005

Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology, 2005

Dehistoricizing History: The Ethical Dilemma of “East Asian Bioethics”, 2005

Blood Talks: Eugenic Modernity and the Creation of New Japanese, 2002

Reflexivity Redux: A Pithy Polemic on “Positionality”, 2002

Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose, 2002

Japan’s First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body and Blood, 2001

Les Battallions Fértiles: Sexe et la Citoyenneté dan le Japon Impérial (Fertile Womb Battalions: Sex and Citizenship in Imperial Japan), 2001

Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan, 1999

It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan, 1998

Japanese Farm Manuals: A Literature of Discovery, 1984

Sexy Rice: Plant Gender, Farm Manuals, and Grass-Roots Nativism, 1984

Rooting the Pine: Shingaku Methods of Organization, 1979