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Please refer and adhere to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240816202351/https://apjjf.org/stylesheet">style and image guidelines</a> when preparing your manuscript.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)"><strong>Publication Categories</strong></p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The journal welcomes submissions in one of four categories, as detailed below:</p> <details class="wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow" style="text-transform:capitalize"><summary>Research Article</summary> <p style="margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);text-transform:none">Original pieces of research up to 10,000 words. Each submission goes through at least two double-blind peer reviews before publication.</p> </details> <details class="wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow" style="text-transform:capitalize"><summary>Research Note</summary> <p style="margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);text-transform:none">Shorter research pieces of approximately 3,000 words based on original research and recent scholarly publications. Their goal is to expose our readership to the most recent scholarship in the field and connect it with larger current debates in Japanese or Asian studies. Each submission goes through at least one single-blind peer review before publication.</p> </details> <details class="wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow"><summary>Analysis</summary> <p style="margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)">Analysis by experts in their fields connecting issues of current relevance to established scholarly literature to help readers more deeply understand these debates and events. Can be approximately 3,000 words. Each submission goes through at least one single-blind peer review before publication.</p> </details> <details class="wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow"><summary>Reflections & Insights</summary> <p style="margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)">Author perspectives on issues spanning current events, research topics, and pedagogy, of approximately 3,000 words. Each submission goes through editorial review before publication.</p> </details> <p></p> <p class="has-medium-font-size" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)"><strong>Special Issues & Course Readers</strong></p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><em>APJJF</em> also welcomes Special Issues and Course Readers. Special Issues are guest edited collections of articles on a single theme. Course Readers, meanwhile, make the work of the journal accessible to teachers and students for classroom use. Contact the editors at <a href="/web/20240816202351/https://apjjf.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d6bfb8b0b9f8b7a6bcbcb096b1bbb7bfbaf8b5b9bb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0c65626a63226d7c66666a4c6b616d6560226f6361">[email protected]</span></a> with proposals for special issues and/or course readers including a brief introduction along with an outline and precis of the proposal.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)"><strong>Translation</strong></p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0">One goal of <em>APJJF</em> is to make the Japanese intellectual world more visible and accessible to English-reading audiences. If you would like to suggest an original or previously published article or essay in Japanese to be translated into English, please send your proposal (including rationale) and the original text to <a href="/web/20240816202351/https://apjjf.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2940474f4607485943434f694e44484045074a4644" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cea7a0a8a1e0afbea4a4a88ea9a3afa7a2e0ada1a3">[email protected]</span></a>. The editorial team will determine next steps and be back in touch.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)"><strong>Peer Review</strong></p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">All submissions are peer reviewed by the editorial team and specialists in the field, with differing processes depending on publication category as detailed above. Reviewers should have no conflict of interest, should advise authors of relevant published work and offer suggestions for strengthening their contributions, and should treat reviewed articles confidentially. Communication between authors and the journal are handled via the journal editors during the review process and following publication.聽Our peer review process is recognized by Ulrich’s Global Serial Directory.</p> <p class="has-medium-font-size" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)"><strong>Copyright</strong></p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)">Copyright of all published articles remains in the possession of the author. <em>APJJF</em> publishes all content under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. 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To publish <em>Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus </em>content in electronic, print or other forms, including course use, contact us at <a href="/web/20240816202351/https://apjjf.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#056c6b636a2b64756f6f63456268646c692b666a68"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="553c3b333a7b34253f3f33153238343c397b363a38">[email protected]</span></a>. 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