Review of Journal of Japanese Studies: Exploring Multidisciplinarity January 2022, Volume 1, Number 1 (Inaugural Issue)

Abstract

Here is the much-awaited inaugural issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies: Exploring Multidisciplinarity (JJSEM). It is a multidisciplinary, international journal of the scholars of Japanese Studiesthe Japanologists. The Journal aims to produce, reproduce, and disseminate knowledge about various aspects of Japan.The multidisciplinarity of the Journal is reflected in the discipline-wise ranges it coverseconomy and economics, politics, society, history, art and culture, religion, anthropology, architecture, archaeology, demography, and many more. The Journal"s approach is to encourage and promote the multidisciplinarity of Japanology in all her dimensionsdiverse in width and breadth, diverse in themes and thoughts, diverse in scholar"s country of origin and place of work, and diverse in identity as academic or practitioner. This historical inaugural volume of JJSEM is an assembly of 31 scholarly articles and two book reviews written by relevant experts-Japanologists from eleven countries around the world (alphabetically) -