{"id":72,"date":"2016-11-11T19:32:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:35:10","slug":"japan-alcoholism-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/publications\/japan-alcoholism-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Alcoholism, Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/173\/2016\/11\/Suffering-Sobriety-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"suffering-sobriety\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/173\/2016\/11\/Suffering-Sobriety-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/173\/2016\/11\/Suffering-Sobriety.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>My first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/japan-alcoholism-and-masculinity-suffering-sobriety-in-tokyo-paul-a-christensen\/943545?ean=9781498507660&amp;next=t\"><em>Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo<\/em><\/a>, was published in 2015 with <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9780739192054\/Japan-Alcoholism-and-Masculinity-Suffering-Sobriety-in-Tokyo\">Lexington Books<\/a>. The book highlights the struggles and difficulties Japanese men negotiate as they try to stay sober and &#8220;work the program&#8221; in either Alcoholics Anonymous or Danshukai, Japan&#8217;s two major sobriety support groups. The men are constantly negotiating a tension between wanting to live sober as the program commands and their encounters with a Japanese public frequently unsympathetic to their struggles and interpretation of alcoholism and addiction. I discussed my findings on the New Books Network podcast, available <a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/paul-a-christensen-japan-alcoholism-and-masculinity-suffering-sobriety-in-tokyo-lexington-books-2014\">here<\/a>. I gave a book talk at the University of Michigan that can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fRxLVSnXBWM\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo\u00a0<\/em>has been well received, as evidenced in several of the book reviews below:<\/p>\n<p>Review of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/173\/2016\/11\/KN-review.pdf\">Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Karen Nakamura (Berkeley)<\/p>\n<p>Review of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/aman.12623\/abstract\/\">Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">My first book, Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo, was published in 2015 with Lexington Books. The book highlights the struggles and difficulties Japanese men negotiate as they try to stay sober and &#8220;work the program&#8221; in either Alcoholics Anonymous or Danshukai, Japan&#8217;s two major sobriety support groups. The men are constantly negotiating a tension between wanting to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/publications\/japan-alcoholism-masculinity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5748,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/1169"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/christen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}