Affairs for his contributions to international understanding of Japan. In 2017, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Government of Japan. In 2018, a Harvard investigation found Bestor committed two counts of sexual misconduct during an interaction with a female professor at a 2017 conference at UCLA. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences disciplined Bestor for the incident, but allowed him to return to work before completing the required sanctions. The controversy continued as of 2020. Personal life His wife, with whom he has co-edited and co-authored many publications, was Victoria Lyon Bestor. She is the executive director of the North America Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. They have a son, Nicholas, born in 1986. Bestor died on July 1, 2021 at the age of 69, from cancer. Publications Doing Fieldwork in Japan, Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor (co-editors), University of Hawai'i Press, 2003 () Neighborhood Tokyo, Theodore C. Bestor, Stanford University Press 1989 and Kodansha International 1990 () Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, Theodore C. Bestor, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004 () ''Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society, Victoria Lyon Bestor and Theodore C. Bestor, with Akiko Yamagata (co-editors), Routledge, 2011 () Further reading Awards 1990 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. 1990 Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award, given by the American Association of University Presses. 1990 Robert Park Award, given by the American Sociological Association. 1993 Abe Fellowship, given by the Social Science Research Council. References External links Theodore C. Bestor Homepage at Harvard Theodore Bestor page at Social Science Research Council 1951 births 2021 deaths American anthropologists Cultural anthropologists American Japanologists Ethnographers Harvard University faculty Stanford University alumni Anthropology educators People from Urbana, Illinois Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies