Submission of Manuscripts

Original manuscripts of up to 13,000 words may be submitted for consideration for publication in The Journal of Japanese Studies. Manuscripts previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere cannot be considered. Copyright of original material published in the Journal is to be assigned to the Society for Japanese Studies. If a version of the work you submit has previously been posted on a website, please provide information on where and when in a cover letter with your manuscript.  We will consider essays that have appeared on the Internet in previous versions, especially those essays that address our interdisciplinary readership, but the version you submit to JJS should be different from what has been available previously. If the material is currently posted online, we cannot protect your anonymity as author during the refereeing process. Contact JJS for clarification regarding any potential copyright conflicts.

Authors should submit their work in an electronic file (PDF or Microsoft Word) sent as an email attachment to jjs@uw.edu. The file should include a 100-word abstract. Authors should also submit a $15 submission fee by mail; checks should be made payable to the Journal of Japanese Studies. (Authors outside the United States should contact us by email for other methods of payment.) This fee will be waived for those who have been Journal subscribers for three or more years.

Manuscripts are read anonymously by our referees. Thus we ask that authors not include their names in the running head on each page and not identify themselves in the manuscript, footnotes, or the File Properties information attached to the electronic version. To help further protect your anonymity as author, please give the draft you submit to JJS a unique title, one that would not be found connected to your name in an Internet search. When essays are accepted for publication, authors are given the opportunity to add any citations or acknowledgments omitted for the refereeing process.

Manuscripts must be double-spaced with notes (also double-spaced) at the end. Tables and figures should appear on separate pages and included at the end. Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be asked to furnish professional quality, camera-ready copy for graphs, figures, and other illustrations. Permission to reprint any images in a manuscript shall be obtained in writing by the author and must cover both print and electronic republication. Japanese terms should be written in the Hepburn style of romanization. Contributors are requested to consult the Journal's style sheet.

All inquiries on submission of manuscripts and all books for review should be addressed to:

The Journal of Japanese Studies
University of Washington
Box 353650 Thomson Hall
Seattle, WA 98195-3650 U.S.A.