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

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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 n ...

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 , 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 b ...

, 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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