Established in 1988, the U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, biannual publication, available in print and online that promotes scholarly exchange on social, cultural, political, and economic issues pertaining to gender and Japan. The U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal encourages comparative study among Japan, the United States, and other countries. We welcome contributions from all academic fields in the social sciences and humanities and proposals for special issues. Our mission is to foster the work of young researchers and to ensure that the achievements of established scholars are not forgotten.

Until 2000, the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal was published in both Japanese (as Nichibei Josei Journal from 1988) and English (as a supplement from 1991). It is now published in English only.

Sponsor and Publisher: The International Institute for Media and Women’s Studies

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2013 to present

Back content starting in 2003

• Recent Articles

• Introduction: Representing Youth and Gender in Japanese Popular Culture
  Posted on Thursday June 13, 2019

  Rethinking the Young Female Cinema Audience: Postwar Cinema-Going in Kansai, 1945-1952
  Posted on Thursday June 13, 2019

  Marketing the Panpan in Japanese Popular Culture: Youth, Sexuality, and Power
  Posted on Thursday June 13, 2019

  The Desire and Disgust of Sweets: Consuming Femininities through Shōjo Manga
  Posted on Thursday June 13, 2019

  Beyond Borders: Shōjo Manga and Gender
  Posted on Thursday June 13, 2019

• Single Issues
• • Volume 54, Number , 2018
    • Representing Youth and Gender in Japanese Popular Culture
  • Volume 53, Number , 2018
    • General Issue
  • Volume 52, Number , 2017
    • General Issue
  • Volume 51, Number , 2017
    • 50 years-Commemorative issue
  • Volume 50, Number , 2016
    • General Issue
  • Volume 49, Number , 2016
    • General Issue
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• Author Guidelines

  Established in 1988, U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal (USJWJ) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, biannual publication, available in print and online, that promotes scholarly exchange on social, cultural, political, and economic issues pertaining to gender and Japan. We encourage comparative study among Japan, the United States, and other countries. Our mission is to foster the work of young researchers and to ensure that the achievements of established scholars are not forgotten.

  1. We welcome contributions from all academic fields in the humanities and social sciences and proposals for special issues.

  2. Manuscripts should be written in English (using American spellings and punctuation) and accessible to a wide readership. Readers of USJWJ include general readers as well as scholars in various fields.

  3. Manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including the alphabetical list of Works Cited and endnotes. Notes should be kept to a minimum and should appear as endnotes rather than footnotes.

  4. Please format manuscripts using the USJWJ Style Sheet, downloadable as a PDF on this website. For general guidelines on appropriate style and format, see Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers or The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition. Please download our Style Guide.

  5. The author should include the following with their submission: (1) manuscript abstract (100-250 words), (2) 5 keywords of the manuscript, (3) short biographical sketch (around 100 words), (4) the Japanese title of the manuscript in addition to the English title, and (5) the mailing address to which to send a copy of the issue in which the article, if accepted will appear.

  6. Materials under consideration or published elsewhere will not be accepted.

  Submit manuscripts digitally to Dr. Alisa Freedman, Editor-in-Chief, alisaf@uoregon.edu

  Editorial Procedures

  Submissions will be reviewed by the USJWJ editors and anonymously by outside reviewers. The review process takes around three months.

  Please download our Style Guide

   

• Editorial Board

• U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal

   

  Editors-in-Chief

  Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon

  Noriko Mizuta, The International Institute for Media and Women’s Studies

   

  Former Editors

  Sally Hastings, Purdue University

  Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Yoko Kawashima (Founding Editor)

   

  Editorial Assistants

  John D. Moore

  Kourtney Scrivani

   

  Editorial Advisory Board

  Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University 

  Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Julia Bullock, Emory University

  Rebecca Copeland, Washington University

  Joan Ericson, Colorado College

  Linda Flores, University of Oxford

  Lucy Fraser, University of Queensland

  Sabine Frühstück, University of California Santa Barbara

  Patrick Galbraith, Senshu University

  Sally Hastings, Purdue University

  Karatani Kojin, Professor Emeritus  

  Akira Lippit, University of Southern California

  Seiji Lippit, University of California Los Angeles

  Anne McKnight, University of California Riverside

  Amanda Seaman, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Jordan Smith, Josai University

  Chizuko Ueno, University of Tokyo

  Yasuko Wachi, The International Institute for Media and Women’s Studies  

  James Welker, Kanagawa University 

  Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College

   

   

• Indexes

• This journal is indexed in the following sources:

  Association for Asian Studies–
  Bibliography of Asian Studies (Online), 1991-1997

  EBSCOhost–
  America: History and Life, 3/1/2005-
  Current Abstracts, 6/1/2009-
  Gender Studies Database, 1/1/1991-
  Historical Abstracts (Online), 3/1/2000-
  TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 6/1/2009-
  Women’s Studies International, 1/1/1991-

  ProQuest–
  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core

  University of Wisconsin at Madison * Women’s Studies Librarian–
  Feminist Periodicals (Online)

  (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