Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John F. Embree (1908-December 22, 1950) was an American anthropologist and academic who specialized in the study of Japan. John Embree received his B.A. from the University of Hawaii in 1931, his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1934 and his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1937. In 1935 36, as part of his doctoral thesis, he conducted field research in a rural area of Kumamoto on the southernmost Japanese island of Ky sh . The study culminated in the seminal book Suye Mura: A Japanese Village[1], published in 1939 by the University of Chicago Press. His wife, Ella Lury Embree (later, Wiswell) conducted the research in Suye Mura alongside him, and subsequently published her own ethnographical work on the subject, The Women of Suye Mura.