Kenneth B. Pyle Prize Honorable Mention for Best Article in JJS 2025
Reut Harari, “Regimenting the Skin: Kanpu Masatsu and the History of Medical Popularization"
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Kenneth B. Pyle Prize for Best Article in The Journal of Japanese Studies 2025
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, “Zen Violence: The Legacy of Nantenbō Tōjū’s Calligraphy in the Postwar Avant-Garde" online.ucpress.edu/jjs/artic…
The Journal of Japanese Studies’ Winter 2025 volume is now live! In addition to new-book reviews, find essays by Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Samuel Yamashita, David Atherton, Christopher Smith, Andrea Germer, and Andrew Elliott. Visit online.ucpress.edu/jjs for more information.
JJS Coeditor Sabine Frühstück took part in a panel offered by the Modern Japan History Association: youtube.com/watch?v=QxfUob8C…
Sabine discusses issues authors should think about when submitting an essay to JJS, with a focus on authors for whom English is not their first language.
The Society for Japanese Studies, which runs the Journal of Japanese Studies, has a new website: japanesestudies.org. Please visit to learn more about the Society, to read interviews with JJS authors, to see a timeline of the journal’s history, and to find additional content.
The Journal of Japanese Studies is excited to announce that Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka are joined by Book Review Editor Jessamyn Abel of Penn State University. JJS is now published by the University of California Press, and our Managing Editor is David Staloch.
The Journal of Japanese Studies is pleased to announce the publication of our Summer 2024 volume with articles by Keisuke Yamada & Andrew Niess, Jonathan E. Abel, Masami Kimura, Noriko Murai, and Reinier H. Hesselink. New book reviews are also included.
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JJS is excited to announce that we are now published by the University of California Press. Our website & contact details will be changing , as well as some submission processes. We look forward to working with you to continue publishing the best scholarship on Japan in English.
In a new JJS interview @dambaras and @profkatemcd discuss digital history, development of the platform Bodies and Structures, and how it encourages users to think differently about space, place, and crafting historical narratives. depts.washington.edu/jjs/int…
And don't miss our other interviews--with Adam Clulow, Susan B. Hanley, and Kenneth B. Pyle. depts.washington.edu/jjs/int…
Stephan Kigensan Licha, ESOTERIC ZEN: ZEN AND THE TANTRIC TEACHINGS IN PREMODERN JAPAN brill.com/display/title/6409… @Brill_Asian
Joshua Frydman, INSCRIBED OBJECTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERATURE IN EARLY JAPAN brill.com/display/title/6003… @Brill_Asian
Jamie Ryder, JAPANESE FIGHTING HEROES: WARRIORS, SAMURAI AND RONINS pen-and-sword.co.uk/Japanese… @penswordbooks
Judith Vitale, @OlegBenesch, and Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, eds., DRUGS AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION IN JAPAN brill.com/edcollbook/title/6… @degruyter_brill
Lewis Bremner, @marodotulong, and Sho Konishi, eds., REOPENING THE OPENING OF JAPAN: TRANSNATIONAL APPROACHES TO MODERN JAPAN AND THE WIDER WORLD brill.com/search?q1=reopenin… @Brill_Asian
Royall Tyler, trans., THE DAWN OF THE WARRIOR AGE: WAR TALES FROM MEDIEVAL JAPAN cup.columbia.edu/book/the-da… @ColumbiaUP
Royall Tyler, trans., JOY, DESPAIR, ILLUSION, DREAMS: TWENTY PLAYS FROM THE NŌ TRADITION cup.columbia.edu/book/joy-de… @ColumbiaUP
Steve Lofts, Nakamura Norihito, & Fernando Wirtz, eds., MIKI KIYOSHI AND THE CRISIS OF THOUGHT chisokudo.org/books/sjp31/ @chisokudo @Enojp_org
#InternationalHappinessDay Read about happiness and the experience of modernity in early 20th-century Japan in Mark Jones, "An Outbreak of Emotion: Romantic Love & Middle-Class Identity in 1921 Japan." "Ponder the transformative power of human emotion"! muse.jhu.edu/pub/44/article/…
A lot happens in 50 years! For its golden anniversary celebration, JJS assembled archived documents, landmark dates, and various trivia in a timeline of historical highlights: depts.washington.edu/jjs/hig…
