Japonica Humboldtiana, published since 1997 (formerly the yearbook of Mori Ôgai Memorial Hall, Berlin Humboldt University) is an international journal of Japanese studies and documents academic work on the areas of Japanese history, history of thought as well as cultural history. A special emphasis is given to philological work, including annotated translations of pre-modern materials. The journal also includes external contributions from scholars with a shared thematic orientation. From the contents (altogether 9 contributions): Michael Kinski, Unicorns, Herbs, and Abundant Sustentation: On the Reception of European Encyclopedias in Early Modern Japan/Luca Ciani, Bohnengewehrschlacht. Politische Karikatur in Japan zur Zeit des Boshin-Krieges/Thomas Fuchs, Die Königsberger Silberbibliothek im Kontext der protestantischen Buchkultur des 16. Jahrhunderts/Klaus Kracht & Katsumi Tateno-Kracht, Christmas in Japan – Shōwa 28–33 / A.D. 1953–58/Stephan Köhn, How to Fill the Void in National History Japanese Peace Education at the Crossroads in the 1970s