He is the author of Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima, Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary (Minnesota UP) and Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema as well as many articles in edited volumes and journals such as Cinema Journal and Film Quarterly. He co-edited Japan-American Film Wars (Routledge), In Praise of Film Studies (Kinema Club), and many film festival retrospective catalogs. He is on the editorial boards of Documentary Box (Japan), International Studies in Documentary, and Mechademia and has been co-owner of the internet newsgroup KineJapan since its inception. For the UM Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program he edits a digital reprint series on Japanese cinema.