Review of Japanese Culture and Society
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The Review of Japanese Culture and Society (RJCS) is devoted to the scholarly examination of Japanese culture in a trans-Pacific context. The journal engages culture broadly defined, exploring discursive and figurative activities in a range of signifying forms both historical and emergent. Each issue features a guest edited section that addresses a particular theme and provides diverse perspectives by putting into conversation the work of scholars, public intellectuals, artists, and critics, in Japan and beyond. A key commitment of the journal is to provide a forum for new translations of Japanese-language research, literature, and criticism, as well as original scholarship in English.
Available in digital format only beginning with issue 32, 2020.
Sponsors: East Asian Studies Center and the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California.
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2012 to present
Back content starting in 1986- Editorial Board
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Editor in Chief
Miya Elise Desjardins
Interim Editorial Board
Ken Ito, Andre Haag, Nancy Stalker, John Szostak
Section Editor (Art in Focus)
Reiko Tomii
Section Editor (Japan in Los Angeles)
Rika Hiro
Section Editor (Literature)
Andre Haag
Production Editor
Natta Phisphumvidhi
Editorial and Administrative Assistant
Miho Tajima
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