John Fee Embree (August 26, 1908 – December 22, 1950) was an American anthropologist and academic who specialized in the study of Japan.
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 Kyūshū.
The study culminated in the seminal book Suye Mura: A Japanese Village,[2] published in 1939 by the University of Chicago Press.
[1] John Embree served as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii in 1937–41 and during World War II in 1943–45.
[1] John Embree was 42 when, at year's end 1950, he and his only daughter, Clare, were struck and killed by a car in Hamden, Connecticut.