Harumi Befu

• The Harumi Befu Prize Recipients

  2025 Hyogo University, April 4th–6th (joint JAWS/AJJ conference) Marta FANASCA (University of Bologna, Hosei University) Ritualizing Intimacy: Gender, Female Agency, and the Commodification of Desire in Contemporary Japan’s Pink Economy…

  June 10, 2025

• In Memoriam: Harumi Befu (1930–2022)

  We are bereft of two members in 2022, Harumi Befu and Mark Bookman, memorialized here thanks to Tom Gill: In Memoriam Harumi Befu 1930 – 2022 I first met Harumi…

  June 10, 2025

• Announcing the winners of the 2025 Befu and Bookman prizes

  At the joint JAWS/AJJ conference held at Hyogo University held in Kobe April 4-6, judging was conducted to award the third edition each of the Harumi Befu prize and the…

  April 9, 2025

• ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2024 BEFU AND BOOKMAN PRIZES

  The 2024 AJJ Conference was held on the weekend of November 30 to December 1 at the Aobayama campus of Tōhoku University. For the second year, we were delighted to…

  December 6, 2024

• Prize Announcements

  The executive committee of AJJ (Anthropology of Japan in Japan) is pleased to announce the results of the inaugural Harumi Befu and Mark Bookman Prizes, awarded at the 2023 Annual…

  December 26, 2023