The Journal of Japanese Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies (JJS) is a journal dealing with research on Japan in the United States.^[1] It is a multidisciplinary forum for communicating new information, new interpretations, and recent research results concerning Japan to the English-reading world.

Journal of Japanese Studies

The front cover of the Summer 2025 issue
Discipline	Japanese studies
Language	English
Edited by	Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka
Publication details
History	1974–present
Publisher	University of California Press (United States)
Frequency	Semiannual
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Jpn. Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0095-6848 (print) 1549-4721 (web)
LCCN	75641024
JSTOR	00956848
OCLC no.	1798633
Links
Journal homepage

JJS is published twice each year – winter and summer – with an annual total of approximately 500 pages. It was begun in Autumn 1974 with Kenneth B. Pyle as its first editor and is now co-edited by Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka. Jessamyn R. Abel is the book review editor. Susan Hanley, a professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Washington, was a long-standing editor for over 25 years.

JSS is published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Society for Japanese Studies, and its contents are available online in the JSTOR database.