This annual journal is from the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies. Since 1988 the JASAS maintained a bilingual (Japanese and English) journal, but in 2008 started this separate English journal with the previous publication shifting to Japanese only.

A wide range of topics is covered in the first five issues of the journal. The bias seems to be for historical and business studies, including historical aspects of business (for example, “Colonial Economy under Japanese Imperialism: Comparison with the Case of India” by Kazuo Hori, pp. 27-52 in volume 4, 2011). There are also sociological, religious, political, linguistic, medical and gender studies.

Each volume includes book reviews which also have a bent towards business and towards Japanese studies of South Asia.

There are no articles in these first five issues that gripped this reviewer to the extent of motivating summarization and discussion.