The Journal of Japanese Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies is a journal dealing with research on Japan in the United States. It is a multidisciplinary forum for communicating new information, new interpretations, and recent research results concerning Japan to the English-reading world.
JJS is published twice each year – winter and summer – with an annual total of approximately 500 pages. It was begun in Autumn 1974 with Kenneth B. Pyle as its first editor and is now co-edited by Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka. Jessamyn R. Abel is the book review editor. Susan Hanley, a professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Washington, was a long-standing editor for over 25 years.
JSS is published by the University of [California Press] on behalf of the Society for Japanese Studies, and its contents are available online in the JSTOR database.