State of the field articles. Focus on premodern Japan. Mid-length book reviews. Covers Continental European scholarship on Japan better than any other journal. This provides full text of all articles in pdf files.
Authors are largely American and Japanese social scientists.
Issues have a focus such as elections, the environment, public works, Japan in the 1960s, Okinawa, area studies. Provides tables of contents of recent journals at website. Focuses on contemporary Japan. It publishes papers that cover Japan in a comparative perspective and papers that focus on international issues that affect Japan. U.S.-Japan Women's Journal.