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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 articles from Japanese and substantive book reviews.
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Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2016Editorial Board
Coeditors
James C. Dobbins, Oberlin College
Janet Hunter, London School of Economics and Politics
Associate Editors
Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Mary C. Brinton, Harvard University
Susan L. Burns, University of Chicago
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Edward Kamens, Yale University
Patricia Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin
Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin
T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley
Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara
Editorial Advisory Board
Simon Avenell, Australian National University
Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington
Amy Borovoy, Princeton University
Daniel H. Foote, University of Washington
Sabine Frühstück, University of California, Santa Barbara
William Grimes, Boston University
Junko Habu, University of California, Berkeley
Laura Hein, Northwestern University
Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick
James McClain, Brown University
Lori Meeks, University of Southern California
Morgan Pitelka, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky
Amy Stanley, Northwestern University
Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University
J. Marshall Unger, Ohio State University
Lori Watt, Washington University in St. Louis
Managing Editor
Martha Lane Walsh