The summer 2022 issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies is live online (and also out in print) and features articles by John Branstetter, Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe, Jianjun Liang, Ran Zwigenberg, and Phil Tomsovic and Jeremy Yellen. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48262

Articles:

Debate and the Performance of Citizenship in Early Meiji Japan

JOHN BRANSTETTER

Life Through the Lens:

Ozaki Kōyō and the Birth of the Photographic Imagination in Japanese Literature

PEDRO THIAGO RAMOS BASSOE

Impossible to Return: Abe Kōbō, Repatriation, and Postwar Japan

JIAJUN LIANG

Wakayama Castle and the Politics of Heritage on Japan's Periphery

RAN ZWIGENBERG

Playboy, Shūeisha, and the Birth of Men's Magazines in 1960s Japan

PHIL TOMSOVIC AND JEREMY A. YELLEN