Review of Japanese Culture and Society
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The Review of Japanese Culture and Society is devoted to the scholarly examination of Japanese art, literature, and society. Published annually in English, it provides a venue for the encounter of diverse perspectives on various aspects of Japanese culture and society. Each issue addresses a particular theme and seeks to provide a broad perspective by combining the work of Japanese scholars and critics with that of non-Japanese writers. Dedicated to the translation of works written originally in Japanese, each issue also includes an original translation of a Japanese short story.
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
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Introduction
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023The Curse of Letters (1942)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Tiger Hunt (1942)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Waiawa Station (1934)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023On the Contributors
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Design as Cultural Representation: Visuality and Materiality in Postwar Japan
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Japan's Postwar Building: Japanese Architecture and the West (1953)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Eyes On Japan: Overseas Artists Also Continue to Arrive (1957)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023At the Intersection of Art and Design (1957)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Epilogue to What Is Design (1961)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Nature and Thought in Japanese Design (1960)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023The I-Ro-Ha of Japan (1979)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Foreword to Hideyuki Oka, How to Wrap Five Eggs: Japanese Design in Traditional Packaging (1967)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023What Is Design? (1965)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Epilogue to Thinking About Design: The Collected Writings of Kimimasa Abe (1978)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Japan Style: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1980)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023The Heritage of Japanese Design (1984)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Introduction to Modern Japanese Design (1987)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Wayo Style: The Japanization Mechanism (1992)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Japanese Design: From Meiji to Modern (1994)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950 (1994)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Japanese Design in the Twentieth Century: Tradition Encounters the Modern World (2009)
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Introduction
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Utagawa Hiroshige and New Year's Eve Foxfires at Nettle Tree, Ōji from NATURE/SUPERNATURE: Visions of This World and Beyond in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Izumita Yukiya and Fold from KESHIKI: The Landscape Within, Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Brodfuehrer Collection
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Bruce Yonemoto: Made in Occupied Japan
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Chromatic Metaphors: An Interview with Manika Nagare
Posted on Friday January 06, 2023Yamashiro: Imagined Home and the Aesthetics of Hollywood Japanism
Posted on Tuesday January 24, 2023 - Single Issues
- Volume 29, Number , 2017
- Reading Soseki Now
- Volume 29, Number , 2017
- Volume 28, Number , 2016
- Design and Society in Modern Japan
- Volume 27, Number , 2015
- Special Issue in Honor of Kyoko Selden
- Volume 26, Number , 2014
- Commensurable Distinctions: Intercultural Negotiations of Modern Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture
- Volume 25, Number , 2013
- Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies
- Volume 24, Number , 2012
- Beyond Tenshin: Okakura Kakuzo's Multiple Legacies
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