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Japanese Political Economy
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/mjes20/about-this-journal
Japanese Political Economy (JPE) was published as Japanese Economic Studies from 1972 to 1996, and as Japanese Economy from 1997 to 2013. In 2018, an international editorial board was formed under a new editor-in-chief (Shinji Yokokawa) and co-editors. JPE's secretariat is currently located at the Musashi University Musashi Institute for Social Sciences.
JPE covers a wide range of economic theories, historical analyses of capitalism, and current social and economic issues (such as depressions, financial instability, gender, environment, economic development, society of inequality, international relations, and policy) in political economy and international relations. It serves as an important resource for researchers, students, and policymakers to better understand the current situation and historical international transitions in Japan and Asia.
JPE is published by Routledge, and many of the world's top university libraries subscribe to it. Since 2022, JPE has also been accepted by Scopus (one of the world's largest abstract and citation databases). The impact factor provided by Web of Science is 0.9, the site score provided by Scopus is 1.5, and it ranks B on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List.
JPE's position in Japanese economics journals ranked B or above in ABDC is as follows (impact factor, site score, ABDC ranking).
Journal of the Japanese and International Economics (2.6, 5.0, A)
Japan and the World Economy, (1.7, 2.9, B)
Japanese Political Economy (0.9, 1.5, B）
Japanese Economic Review (0.6, 1.1, B)
Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics (0.4, 0.8, B)
Internationally, JPE's position in Heterodox Economics journals, ranked B or higher on the ABDC, is as follows:
Cambridge Journal of Economics: (2.5, 4.0, A)
Journal of Evolutionary Economics (1.4, 2.2, A)
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (1.2, 2.8, B)
Journal of Economic Issues (1.0, 1.5, B)
Japanese Political Economy (0.9, 1.5, B）
Review of Radical Political Economics (0.6, 1.4, B)
Currently, JPE is aiming for an A rank.
Since the formation of a new editorial board in 2018, JPE has been publishing the following special issue (Guest Editor) and regular issues.
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 52 (2026)
52-1 Secular Stagnation in East Asia; GE: Robert Rowthorn, D. Hugh Whittaker and Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/52/1?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 51 (2025)
51 1-2 (Spring and Summer 2025) Digital Money: New Forms and Old Contradictions; GE Costas Lapavitsas
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/51/1-2?nav=tocList
51-3 (Fall 2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/51/3?nav=tocList
51-4 (Fall 2025) Special Issue: Secular Stagnation and the End of Capitalism. Guest Editor: Radhika Desai
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/51/4?nav=tocList
50-1 (Spring 2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/50/1?nav=tocList
50-2 (Summer 2025) Special Issue on The rise and fall of the export-led industrialisation model in the changing global
economy; GE Tomoo Marukawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/50/2?nav=tocList
50 3-4 (Summer & Winter 2025) Special issue on premature deindustralisation; GE Robert Rowthorn &
Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/50/3-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 49 (2023)
49-1 Special Issue: Secular stagnation as a new great depression; E Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/49/1?nav=tocList
49 2-3 (Summer and Autumn 2023) special issue on the political economy of climate change; GE Robert Pollin
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/49/2-3?nav=tocList
49-4 Special Issue: Secular stagnation as a new great depression: Part two Europe and Asia; E Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/49/4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 48 (2022)
48-1 (Spring 2022) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/48/1?nav=tocList
48 2-4 (Summer, Fall &Winter 2024) Special Issue on Feminism in Asia and money and finance ; GE Nobuharu Yokokawa
& Yoshie Hori
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/48/2-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 47 (2021)
47-1 Feminism and gender research in Japan; GE Diane Rosemary Elson
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/47/1?nav=tocList
47 2-3 International income inequality; GE Alan Freeman
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/47/2-3?nav=tocList
47-4 Japan’s secular stagnation and beyond,; Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/47/4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 46 (2020)
46-1 The evolution of diverse e-money: Digital-community currencies and cryptocurrencies; GE Makoto Nishibe
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/46/1?nav=tocList
46 2-3 International economic governance in a multipolar world; GE Radhika Desai
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/46/2-3?nav=tocList
46-4 Debating modern monetary theory; GE Costas Lapavitsas & Robert Rowthorn
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/46/4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 45 (2019)
45 1-2 GE Nobuharu Yokokawa & Costas Lapavitsas
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/45/1-2?nav=tocList
45 3-4 GE Nobuharu Yokokawa & Richard Westra
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/45/3-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 44 (2019)
Vol 44 GE Jayati Ghosh
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/44/1-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 43 (2019)
Vol 43 GE Nobuharu Yokokawa & C. P. Chandrasekhar
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/43/1-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 42 (2018)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/42/1-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy (JPE) was published as Japanese Economic Studies from 1972 to 1996, and as Japanese Economy from 1997 to 2013. In 2018, an international editorial board was formed under a new editor-in-chief (Shinji Yokokawa) and co-editors. JPE's secretariat is currently located at the Musashi University Musashi Institute for Social Sciences.
JPE covers a wide range of economic theories, historical analyses of capitalism, and current social and economic issues (such as depressions, financial instability, gender, environment, economic development, society of inequality, international relations, and policy) in political economy and international relations. It serves as an important resource for researchers, students, and policymakers to better understand the current situation and historical international transitions in Japan and Asia.
JPE is published by Routledge, and many of the world's top university libraries subscribe to it. Since 2022, JPE has also been accepted by Scopus (one of the world's largest abstract and citation databases). The impact factor provided by Web of Science is 0.9, the site score provided by Scopus is 1.5, and it ranks B on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List.
JPE's position in Japanese economics journals ranked B or above in ABDC is as follows (impact factor, site score, ABDC ranking).
Journal of the Japanese and International Economics (2.6, 5.0, A)
Japan and the World Economy, (1.7, 2.9, B)
Japanese Political Economy (0.9, 1.5, B）
Japanese Economic Review (0.6, 1.1, B)
Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics (0.4, 0.8, B)
Internationally, JPE's position in Heterodox Economics journals, ranked B or higher on the ABDC, is as follows:
Cambridge Journal of Economics: (2.5, 4.0, A)
Journal of Evolutionary Economics (1.4, 2.2, A)
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (1.2, 2.8, B)
Journal of Economic Issues (1.0, 1.5, B)
Japanese Political Economy (0.9, 1.5, B）
Review of Radical Political Economics (0.6, 1.4, B)
Currently, JPE is aiming for an A rank.
Since the formation of a new editorial board in 2018, JPE has been publishing the following special issue (Guest Editor) and regular issues.
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 52 (2026)
52-1 Secular Stagnation in East Asia; GE: Robert Rowthorn, D. Hugh Whittaker and Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/52/1?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 51 (2025)
51 1-2 (Spring and Summer 2025) Digital Money: New Forms and Old Contradictions; GE Costas Lapavitsas
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/51/1-2?nav=tocList
51-3 (Fall 2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/51/3?nav=tocList
51-4 (Fall 2025) Special Issue: Secular Stagnation and the End of Capitalism. Guest Editor: Radhika Desai
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/51/4?nav=tocList
50-1 (Spring 2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/50/1?nav=tocList
50-2 (Summer 2025) Special Issue on The rise and fall of the export-led industrialisation model in the changing global
economy; GE Tomoo Marukawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/50/2?nav=tocList
50 3-4 (Summer & Winter 2025) Special issue on premature deindustralisation; GE Robert Rowthorn &
Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/50/3-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 49 (2023)
49-1 Special Issue: Secular stagnation as a new great depression; E Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/49/1?nav=tocList
49 2-3 (Summer and Autumn 2023) special issue on the political economy of climate change; GE Robert Pollin
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/49/2-3?nav=tocList
49-4 Special Issue: Secular stagnation as a new great depression: Part two Europe and Asia; E Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/49/4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 48 (2022)
48-1 (Spring 2022) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/48/1?nav=tocList
48 2-4 (Summer, Fall &Winter 2024) Special Issue on Feminism in Asia and money and finance ; GE Nobuharu Yokokawa
& Yoshie Hori
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/48/2-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 47 (2021)
47-1 Feminism and gender research in Japan; GE Diane Rosemary Elson
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/47/1?nav=tocList
47 2-3 International income inequality; GE Alan Freeman
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/47/2-3?nav=tocList
47-4 Japan’s secular stagnation and beyond,; Nobuharu Yokokawa
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/47/4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 46 (2020)
46-1 The evolution of diverse e-money: Digital-community currencies and cryptocurrencies; GE Makoto Nishibe
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/46/1?nav=tocList
46 2-3 International economic governance in a multipolar world; GE Radhika Desai
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/46/2-3?nav=tocList
46-4 Debating modern monetary theory; GE Costas Lapavitsas & Robert Rowthorn
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/46/4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 45 (2019)
45 1-2 GE Nobuharu Yokokawa & Costas Lapavitsas
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/45/1-2?nav=tocList
45 3-4 GE Nobuharu Yokokawa & Richard Westra
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/45/3-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 44 (2019)
Vol 44 GE Jayati Ghosh
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/44/1-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 43 (2019)
Vol 43 GE Nobuharu Yokokawa & C. P. Chandrasekhar
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/43/1-4?nav=tocList
Japanese Political Economy Vol. 42 (2018)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mjes20/42/1-4?nav=tocList