Abstract
This paper elucidates the significance of self-referential descriptions of researcher experiences in the Life-story Research by critically examining the methodology of Sakurai Atsushi who is one of the leading sociologists in Biographical research. First, it is necessary to fully describe the process by which researcher self-awareness has grown deeper through interactions with the researched because the process is one of the vital contexts to thoroughly understand the life experiences of the researched. Second, description of the research process in which a researcher has struggled with unfamiliar situations and others should provide the readers of research products with valuable knowledge to survive the uncertain social world. Finally, I point out that self-referential description of researcher experience holds the potential to help overcome the difficulties that social research in general encounters.
