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

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 in social scientific perspective, semiannually published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

. SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

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

Andrew Gordon (historian)

Andrew Gordon is a prominent scholar of modern Japanese history. He is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University and former chair of the Department of History there from 2004–2007. He was Director of the Edwin O...

 (Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

), Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck is an American academic and Japanologist. She is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University.-Career:Gluck received her B.A. from Wellesley in 1962. She was awarded her Ph.D...

 (Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

), Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Jomo Kwame Sundaram , known as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist, who has served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs since 2005...

 (United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

), and J. Victor Koschmann

J. Victor Koschmann

Julian Victor Koschmann was the chairman of the Department of History at Cornell University until 2009. His primary field of expertise is the history of Japan. He earned his B.A. at International Christian University in 1965, his M.A...

 (Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

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