Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill (known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill Academic Publishers) is an international academic publisher and is listed on Euronext, Amsterdam. With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 100 journals and around 500 new books and reference works each year. In addition, Brill is a provider of primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences through its imprint IDC Publishers. All publications are available in print or microform, as well as in electronic format.
As of October 1, 2006 the publishing activities of Transnational Publishers have joined the International Law program of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill’s imprint for publications in the area of international law. Brill will continue to publish this list under the name of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
In the 19th century, Brill was often called upon to print books prepared by other publishers, who felt Brill had the highest-quality Arabic fonts. Brill published the Encyclopaedia of Islam (in German, French, and English), first in 1913, and later in 1987; they also published many journals on Islamic and Biblical studies, and critical text for many manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
Brill's Japanese Studies Library
The publisher's series includes monographs on substantial subjects, thematic collections of articles, handbooks, text editions, and translations.[1] The scholarly collection includes the following selections:[2]
29. Nagaoka by Ellen Van Goethem [29th selected]
28. Christ in Japanese Culture by Emi Mase-Hsegawa [28th selected]
27. Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival by Cheryl Crowley
26. Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation by Sharalyn Orbaugh
25. The Authenticity of Sendai Kuji Hongi by John R. Bentley
24. Thinking Like a Man by Bettina Gramlich-Oka
23. Theorizing the Angura Space by Peter Eckersall
22. Progressive Traditions by Helen S.E. Parker
21. Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives by Christopher I. Beckwith
20. Dew on the Grass by Makoto Ueda
19. Hiratsuka Raichō and Early Japanese Feminism by Hiroko Tomida
18. Juvenile Delinquency in Japan by Gesine Foljanty-Jost, ed.
17. Capital Punishment in Japan by Petra Schmidt
16. Christianity in Early Modern Japan by Ikuo Higashibaba
15. A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose by John R. Bentley
14. Individuum, Society, Humankind by Makoto Ozaki
12. Japanese Theatre and the International Stage by Stanca Scholz-Cionca and Samuel L. Leiter, eds.
11. Meeting the Sensei by Maya Mortimer
10. A Dutch Spy in China by Ger Teitler and Kurt W. Radtke, eds.
9. Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875 Roy S. Hanashiro
8. The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States Helen Hardacre, ed.
7. Itô Jinsai's Gomô Jigi and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan by John Allen Tucker
6. New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan by Helen Hardacre with Adam L. Kern, eds.
5. The Foundations of Japan's Modernization by Yoshiie Yoda, translated by Kurt. W. Radtke
4. A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu by Alexander V. Vovin
