Aims and scope

Japan is an important laboratory for developing and debating ideas about capitalism and its dynamics. The Japanese Political Economy approaches the study of political economy and Japanese economy and its international relations. The journal is a resource for scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners who seek to better understand the contemporary and historical, transnational and internal processes of change in the Japanese and wider Asian economy. It publishes a broad range of scholarship that draws from multiple theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives.

The Japanese Political Economy covers theory, history, and regional study.

1. Broader economic theories (including Political economy, Heterodox, Keynesian, Evolutionary, Institutional, and Feminist Economics).
2. Historical analysis of capitalism (including periodizing stages of capitalist development, analysis of capitalist world system change).
3. Theoretical and empirical exploration of current political-economic issues, and regional study (crisis, financial instability, socialism, gender, environment and climate change, poverty and income inequality, unemployment, an ageing population, industrialisation of Asia).

The Japanese Political Economy continues Japanese Economic Studies, a leading journal published continuously since 1972. From 1997 to 2013, the journal was known as Japanese Economy.

Peer Review Policy

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-chief and/or relevant co-editor and, if found suitable for further consideration, will be sent out for peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single-anonymized, and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.