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A multidisciplinary forum for communicating new information, new interpretations, and recent researc

JJS publishes broad, exploratory articles suggesting new analyses and interpretations and substantial book reviews. Its core objective is to maintain an enduring record of highest-quality scholarship through publication of empirical and interpretive work on Japan. It is published twice each year, winter and summer, by the Society for Japanese Studies and is housed at the University of Washington.

22/10/2024

JJS Coeditor Sabine Frühstück took part in a professional development panel offered by the Modern Japan History Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfUob8CL6A

In this video, Sabine discusses issues authors should think about when sending a submission to the Journal of Japanese Studies, with particular focus on considerations for authors for whom English is not their first language. If you are interested in submitting an essay to the journal, please check out this video.

The Society for Japanese Studies, which runs the Journal of Japanese Studies, has a new website: https://www.japanesestudies.org. Please visit to learn more about the Society, to read interviews with JJS authors, to see a timeline of the journal’s history, and to find additional content.

A panel of scholars with extensive experience in academic publishing offers advice, tips, and strategies for publishing academic research articles in English...

18/08/2024

The Journal of Japanese Studies is excited to announce that Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka are now joined by Book Review Editor Jessamyn Abel from Pennsylvania State University. Also, the JJS is now published by the University of California Press, and our new Managing Editor is David Staloch. Our new website is https://online.ucpress.edu/jjs/ and we are accepting submissions through https://jjs.scholasticahq.com/. We are all working together to publish the best scholarship on Japan in English, and we welcome your contributions.

The Journal of Japanese Studies is the most influential journal dealing with research on Japan available in the English language. Since 1974, it has published the results of scholarly research on Japan in a wide variety of social science and humanities disciplines, as well as translations of article...

02/08/2024

The Journal of Japanese Studies is pleased to announce the publication of our Summer 2024 volume with articles by Keisuke Yamada & Andrew Niess, Jonathan E. Abel, Masami Kimura, Noriko Murai, and Reinier H. Hesselink. New book reviews are also included.
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/preview/issue/52867

08/07/2024

The Journal of Japanese Studies is excited to announce that we are now published by the University of California Press. Our website and contact details will be changing in the months ahead, as well as some of our submission processes. We look forward to working with you to continue publishing the best scholarship on Japan in English.

22/02/2024

Please join us at AAS in Seattle to celebrate 50 years of JJS!

07/02/2024

Launching the fiftieth year of publication of the Journal of Japanese Studies, the winter 2024 issue is live online (and also available in print) and features articles by Youjia Li, Ben Whaley, Alexander Murphy, Aaron P. Jasny, Małgorzata Karolina Citko-DuPlantis, and Christopher W. Hughes—plus reviews of two dozen new books on Japan. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51346

29/12/2023

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