Announcements
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2025-09-20
Save the Date: JARPS 2025 Symposium (online)
Symposium on " Tools of the Trade: Props, Techniques, and Inspirations for Analog Role-Playing," Nov. 22, 2025.
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2024-11-23
Tools of the Trade: Props, Techniques, and Inspirations for Analog Role-Playing (2025/03/31; 2025/11)
Call for Submissions for Issue 6, deadline: March 31, 2025, publication date: November 2025.
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2022-11-19
Rolling Submissions
Information and guidelines for rolling submissions (outside a special issue, without deadlines).
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This is the home of the Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies (JARPS; ISSN: 2434-9682), a bilingual academic journal about table-top role-playing games and live-action role-plays in and from Japan but in a global context.
No. 5Welcome to Join: Exploring Access and Accessibility in Analog Role-Playing Games
Issue description
The fifth issue of the Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies (JARPS) focuses on the fundamental themes of access and accessibility in table-top/table-talk (TRPG) and live-action (larp) role-playing games. This special issue explores the multifaceted bar ... See the full issue