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:
Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California
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- Recent Articles
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Empires in Motion, Cultures of Crossing: Creative Production in Japan's Colonial, Postcolonial, and Diasporic Space
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Empire, Design, and the Modern Lifestyle: Japanese Department Stores and the Colonial Identity
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Painting World Powers Across the Transwar Period: Okada Kenzō and Kawabata Minoru Under the Japanese Empire and Pax Americana
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025War Picture Postcards: Depicting Children as Vehicles of Pan-Asian Ideology
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Fool's Play: Post-Colonial Performance Art of The Fourth Group
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Vipers and Workers Cross the Korea Strait: Mobile Theater at the Chikuhō Botayama
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Miguel Chikaoka: A Japanese Brazilian Artist in the Light's Path
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Translation as "Suppuration"—Tsuchida Bakusen, Kim Soun, and Kajiyama Toshiyuki
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025A Sketch of Paradise (Tengoku no ryakuzu, 1936)
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Homecoming (Kikyō, 1974)
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Cultivating Originality: An Interview with Calligrapher and Hip-Hop Dancer Kuniharu Yoshida
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025Objects in Bloom: Reimagining the Still Life Artist Interview with Stephanie Shih
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025On the Contributors
Posted on Thursday December 18, 2025 - 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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Editor in Chief
Miya Elise Desjardins
Interim Editorial Board
Ken Ito, Andre Haag, Nancy Stalker, John Szostak
Assistant Editor
Miho Tajima
Production Editor
Natta Phisphumvidhi
Section Editor (Art in Focus)
Reiko Tomii
Section Editor (Japan in Los Angeles)
Rika Hiro
Section Editor (Literature)
Andre Haag
(IBZ) International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences; (IBR) International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences