Publications

Persisting in Japan: Citizenship and Post-Detention Life for Provisionally Released Immigrants

Current Anthropology.

“Failure” and Institutional Legitimacy in Japan’s Peer-Run Addiction Recovery Network

SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2026.100836 ↗

Treating Pains of Living in Japanese Addiction Therapies

Ethnography. DOI: 10.1177/14661381261472643 ↗

Psychiatric Care and Legal Residency for Japan’s “Non-legal” Immigrants

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1007/s11013-026-09978-z ↗

Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico-legal Addiction and Japanese Psychiatry

Medical Anthropology Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/maq.70071 ↗

The Spaces Between Fault/Lines: Collaborative Politics of Addiction in Japan

Contemporary Drug Problems 49(3): 299–318. DOI: 10.1177/00914509221084383 ↗

Evidentiary Vocabularies Formed Across Japanese Drug Courts and Clinics

Borrowing a Cat’s Hand: Contingent Cosmopolitanism and Japan’s Refugee Support Networks

The Dialogue Must Go On: Rethinking the Anthropology of Relational Personhood in Japan

Searching for Coordinates of Narration: Japan’s Emerging Public Discourses on Sexuality, HIV, and Drug Use

The Human Foundations of an Institutional Order: Pirate Institutionalism and Weberian Lebensführung in Japan

Scenes of Moral Distress in Japan’s War on Drugs