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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 47, Number 1, Winter 2021Table of Contents

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View Ekuni Kaori's Tears in the Night: The Brilliance of Queer Readings for Japanese Literary Studies
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View Who Cooked for Townsend Harris? Chinese and the Introduction of Western Foodways to Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan
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View Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism by Richard M. Jaffe (review)
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View Guardians of the Buddha's Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū by Jessica Starling (review)
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View Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. Smith (review)
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View Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State by Masahiro Mogaki (review)
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View Taming Japan's Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy by Gene Park et al. (review)
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View Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace by Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg (review)
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View That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao's China by Erik Esselstrom (review)
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View The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon by William C. Hedberg (review)
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View Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives ed. by James McMullen (review)
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View The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves by Lúcio de Sousa (review)
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View Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi Osaki (review)
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View The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen (review)
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View Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 by Ricky W. Law (review)
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View In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma (review)
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View Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire by Yuka Hiruma Kishida (review)
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View Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education by Raja Adal (review)
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View Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 by Benjamin Uchiyama (review)
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View The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan Shockey (review)
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View Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase (review)
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View Shōjo Across Media: Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan ed. by Jaqueline Berndt et al. (review)
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View Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster by Rachel DiNitto, and: The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post–3/11 Japan by Koichi Haga (review)
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ISSN | 1549-4721 |
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Print ISSN | 0095-6848 |
Launched on MUSE | 2021-02-05 |
Open Access | No |