Review of Japanese Culture and Society
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The Review of Japanese Culture and Society (RJCS) is a peer-reviewed journal 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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Reading, Feeling, and Imagining Color Guest Editor's Introduction to Special Issue: "Color and Form: The Affordances of Color in Japanese Literature, Art, and Media"
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Fragments on Aesthetic Theories of Color: Excerpts from My Notes
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Colors in Waka Poetry: The Change of Colors from Man'yō to Shin-Kokin
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Mimetic Sense, Sublime Sensibility: Color in The Tale of Genji
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Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Romantic Blue: Longing for the Infinite and the Literary Idealism of Takayama Chogyū
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Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Coloring (Non)Place: Globalization, Hybridity, and Mediating Japan Through Anime
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Shades of Nature: Iro, Eros, and Environment in Japan's First "Natural Color" Film Carmen Comes Home (1951)
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Colors of Ozu: A Digital Excavation of Ozu Yasujirō's Final Films
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026My Memories of Color (Shikisai no kioku kara, 2023)
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026The Color of a Life Entire (Isshoku isshō, 1974)
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Selections from Flowers with a Story to Tell (Katarikakeru hana, 2007)
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Color in Japanese Culture: A Bibliography
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026"Quagmire" and "Dreams"
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026On the Sense of Beauty of a Moonlit Night
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Shiki's Painting
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Color
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Base of White
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Fūkei: Three Essays on Landscape
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Ink Black
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026The Day I Wore the Color I Vowed
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026Section Editor's Notes
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026On Kawara and Color Theory: Understanding the Today Series (Part 1) Through an Archive
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026On the Contributors
Posted on Monday July 20, 2026 - Pricing Guide
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Editor in Chief
Miya Elise Desjardins
Interim Editorial Board
Ken Ito, Andre Haag, 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
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(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