''Social Science Japan Journal'' (''SSJJ'') is a peer-reviewed

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covering

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

in social scientific perspective, semiannually published by

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. SSJJ's editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (

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), Carol Gluck (

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), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (

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), and J. Victor Koschmann (

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). SSJJ is listed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), under the "Area Studies" category.

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