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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 51, Number 2, Summer 2025Table of Contents
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View Confessing Unrepresentability: Photography and Panoramic Depiction in Tayama Katai's Russo-Japanese War Diary
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View Fear, Farce, and Futei Senjin ("Treacherous Koreans"): Nakanishi Inosuke's Parodic Travels into Paranoia on Empire's Edge
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View Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan ed. by Judith Vitale, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, and Oleg Benesch (review)
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View Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care by Shawn Bender (review)
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View Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum by Nicolas Tajan (review)
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View When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan by Hannah Gould (review)
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When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan by Hannah Gould (review)
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View Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire by Wendy Matsumura (review)
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Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire by Wendy Matsumura (review)
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View From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia by Matthew R. Augustine (review)
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From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia by Matthew R. Augustine (review)
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View Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan by Gennifer Weisenfeld (review)
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View Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema by Amanda Weiss (review)
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View Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan ed. by Hugh de Ferranti, Masaya Shishikura, and Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes (review)
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Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan ed. by Hugh de Ferranti, Masaya Shishikura, and Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes (review)
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View Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan by Akihiro Ogawa (review)
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Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan by Akihiro Ogawa (review)
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View Inscribed Objects and the Development of Literature in Early Japan by Joshua Frydman (review)
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View Esoteric Zen: Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan by Stephan Kigensan Licha (review)
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View The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c. 1600–2019 by Fynn Holm (review)
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| ISSN | 1549-4721 |
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| Print ISSN | 0095-6848 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-08-15 |
| Open Access | No |




