@article{oai:tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp:00041845,
 author = {HARTLEY, Ryan},
 journal = {国際日本研究, Journal of International and advanced Japanese studies},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {This research note summarises years of planning and conducting field research on Japan’s political and business relations in Southeast Asia. Japan Studies usually, and obviously, means conducting research either in Japan or in the researcher’s home country. However given Japan’s wide-ranging involvement in many other countries, this is unnecessarily limiting, and so my research in Japan Studies has focused on examining ‘Japan outside of Japan’. This research note is a detailed and practical step-by-step guide to planning primary-level research methods, focusing on interviews with elite (political and business) Japanese actors operating in countries other than Japan or the researcher’s own country. It will highlight planning and conducting each stage of the field research, in addition to the many small and easy-tooverlook points for researchers who are engaged in Japan Studies. Not limited to field research outside of Japan and equally applicable to research being conducted within Japan itself, this research note will present some of the challenges and solutions for future students to predict and plan for when necessarily engaging with Japan Studies in third-party locales., Note: At various points, the experiences conveyed in this piece have benefitted from support by the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (United Kingdom) and the Leverhulme Foundation (United Kingdom).},
 pages = {115--128},
 title = {<Research Note>Japan Studies at a Distance : Conducting Primary Research in Third-Party Countries},
 volume = {9},
 year = {2017}
}