The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Subtitle: Japan Focus
By: www.japanfocus.org
Published: 2004-
Place of publication: www.japanfocus.org
Subjects: Asian Studies; International Relations; Asia-Pacific; Japan; Korea; China
Genres: Social Science; Journalism
Description: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (www.japanfocus.org), founded in 2004 as Japan Focus, is an open access, peer reviewed academic journal which explores the forces shaping the Asia-Pacific region and the world. Published weekly, its coverage spans geopolitics, history, economics, society, culture, and international relations. It also offers translations of articles from Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

As of April 2009, the journal had published more than 1,500 articles. About 4,000 subscribers receive a weekly newsletter linking to three to eight new articles. More than 350,000 articles are accessed each month by readers from 180 countries as confirmed by Clustrmap. The entire contents of the Journal are available in full-text, searchable electronic form as a fully-indexed resource on the Asia-Pacific.

The Journal brings together scholarship on the modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific and contributions from contemporary journalists. A special section on economic and financial crisis in the Asia-Pacific provides an ongoing record of analysis and debate on the regional and global consequences of the descent into depression. Other major subjects addressed include the Asia-Pacific War, atrocities and reconciliation, the atomic bomb, China-Japan/US-Japan/and Japan-Korea relations, nationalisms, territorial and resource conflicts, US military bases in the Asia-Pacific, and film, literature, anime and manga in region-wide and global perspective.
Notes: ISSN 1557-4660, www.japanfocus.org