Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) is a peer-reviewed
scholarly journal
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covering
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
in social scientific perspective, semiannually published by
Oxford University Press
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. SSJJ's editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
, and supported by the international advisory board members including
Andrew Gordon (
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
),
Carol Gluck
Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941) is an American academic and Japanologist. She is the George Sansom Professor Emerita of History at Columbia University and served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1996.
Career
Gluck w ...
(
Columbia University
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),
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram ( ta, ஜோமோ குவாமே சுந்தரம், Jōmō Kuvāmē Cuntaram) (born 1 December 1952), fondly known just as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist. He is a senior adviser at the Khazanah Resea ...
(
United Nations
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), and
J. Victor Koschmann (
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
). SSJJ is listed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), under the "Area Studies" category.
External links
Social Science Japan Journal
Publications established in 1998
Oxford University Press academic journals
Japanese studies journals
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