JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Introduction

Miya Mizuta Lippit

San'yutei Encho's Ghosts and the Aesthetics of Things Unseen

Daniel O'Neill

Reconfiguring Visuality : Literary Realism and Illustration in Meiji Japan

Miya Mizuta Lippit

Between Sight and Rhythm : Aspects of Modernity in Tayama Katai's "Flat Depiction"

Shu Kuge

The Formation of an Impure Genre - On the Origins of Manga

Miyamoto Hirohito

Orality and the Transforming Senses in Meiji Media:

An Exploration of Kami-Shibai and Japanese Folklore
Kang Jun

Okakura's Way of Tea : Representing Chanoyu in Early Twntieth-Centurey America

Noriko Murai

Fiction:
The Single Sword

Koda Rohan