Hello all,

Just to announce that the latest round of Early Access articles from Japan Review are now available Open Access through Nichibunken.

This month's tranche features Yoshikuni IGARASHI's piercing examination of the Hiroshima photography of Ishiuchi Miyako, together with Bernhard SCHEID's Introduction and article for our latest Special Section examining Domain Shinto in Early Modern Japan.

Yoshikuni IGARASHI, "Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction? Ishiuchi Miyako's Hiroshima and Postwar Japan"
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000226

Bernhard SCHEID, "Introduction: Domain Shinto in Tokugawa Japan"
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000227

Bernhard SCHEID, "Domain Shinto as a Testing Ground of Early Modern Shinto"
https://doi.org/10.15055/0002000225

Over the next couple of months, further articles from INOUE Tomokatsu, Stefan KÖCK, and Brigitte PICKL-KOLACZIA will round out the Special Section, while Beth M. CARTER will examine the Suma chapter in the Tale of Genji and demonstrate the power of private poetry in the Heian period.

Check back at https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/publications/data/jare/ for further updates.

Japan Review is a peer-reviewed and fully Open Access journal indexed by SCOPUS and Web of Science. Volume 39 will be published in December 2024.

Have a great summer everyone!

Best wishes,


Ted