- Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
- The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925
- The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
- Bull City Survivor: Standing Up to a Hard Life in a Southern City
- Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (Study of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University)