Established in 1988, U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, semiannual publication that promotes scholarly exchange on social, cultural, political, and economic issues pertaining to gender and Japan. The journal publishes research that is comparative or transnational in scope, including work that examines relations between Japan and the United States, Japan and other countries, or situates Japan within broader international or global contexts. It welcomes submissions from scholars across the humanities and social sciences. The journal’s mission is to foster the work of emerging researchers while ensuring continued engagement with the scholarship of established scholars.

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: The International Institute for Media and Women’s Studies

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• Recent Articles

• Elise Grilli (1906-1969): Pioneer American Historian and Critic of Japanese Art = エリス・グリーリ(1906–1969) : 先駆者の日本美術の学者と評論家
  Posted on Sunday February 15, 2026

  New Wave Women: Brothel Prostitutes' Participation in Public Health in 1950s Tokyo = 婦人新風：: 1950 年代東京における赤線接客婦の公衆衛生活動
  Posted on Sunday February 15, 2026

  Selected Essays from Mukōda Kuniko's Chichi no wabijō (Father's Letter of Apology) = 向田邦子「父の詫び状」 からの選集
  Posted on Sunday February 15, 2026

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Materials under consideration or published elsewhere will not be accepted.
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• Editorial Board

• Editors-in-Chief
  Noriko Mizuta
  The International Institute for Media and Women’s Studies, Japan

  Managing Editor
  Jennifer Cullen
  Northeastern University, USA

  Former Editors
  Alisa Freedman
  University of Oregon, USA

  Sally Hastings
  Purdue University, USA

  Jan Bardsley
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

  Yoko Kawashima (Founding Editor)

  Editorial Advisory Board

  Jeffrey Angles
  Western Michigan University, USA

  Michael Bourdaghs
  University of Chicago, USA

  Julia Bullock
  Emory University, USA

  Rebecca Copeland
  Washington University, USA

  Joan Ericson
  Colorado College, USA

  Linda Flores
  University of Oxford, UK

  Lucy Fraser
  University of Queensland, Australia

  Sabine Frühstück
  University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  Patrick Galbraith
  Senshu University, Japan

  Irene González-López
  Kingston University, UK

  Sally Hastings
  Purdue University, USA

  Jon Holt
  Portland State University, USA

  Kojin Karatani
  Professor Emeritus, Japan

  Akira Lippit
  University of Southern California, USA

  Seiji Lippit
  University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Anne McKnight
  University of California, Riverside, USA

  Amanda Seaman
  University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

  Jordan Smith
  Josai University, Japan

  Chizuko Ueno
  University of Tokyo, Japan

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

  James Welker
  Kanagawa University, Japan

  Eve Zimmerman
  Wellesley College, USA

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• 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