Focus and Scope

KIRYOKU accept articles in the following areas:

• Japan's culture
• Japan's history
• Japan's literature
• Japanese studies
• Japanese language in education
• contrastive linguistic
• Japanese applied linguistic
• Japanese semantics 
• Japanese pragmatics 
• Japanese phonetic and phonology
• Japanese sociolinguistics
• Japanese semiotics
• Japanese discourse analysis
• Japanese culture in temporary society
• Japanese youth culture
• Japanese popular culture
• gender in Japanese literature

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process / Policy

The manuscripts submitted to KIRYOKU: Jurnal Studi Kejepangan will be evaluated through 2 review stages by an editor and reviewers.

The first is the pre-review by the journal editor to evaluate the conformity of the manuscript with the focus and scope of the journal and the specific author guidelines. KIRYOKU: Jurnal Studi Kejepangan uses Google Scholar and Turnitin software for plagiarism and similarity checking during this stage. Duration of evaluation between 1-2 weeks.

Each manuscript that passes the first stage will be substantially single-blind reviewed by at least one reviewer. Duration of evaluation between 3-6 weeks after review assignment. The reviewer may request a re-review after the author revises his/her article. The editor will send the reviewers' comments to the corresponding author to take the necessary revisions.

The Editor decides whether the revised manuscript can be published by considering recommendations from reviewers. All pre-published articles must be free from plagiarism content. The Editor will check the similarity of articles in this journal using Turnitin software.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The published article will be available on the Kiryoku: Jurnal Studi Kejepangan website and their full text can be downloaded freely.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. 

The journal uses the archiver services to create distributed filing systems among participating libraries and enables them to create journal archives for conservation and restoration purposes. 

• LOCKSS and More...
• Portico archive

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

KIRYOKU is a peer-reviewed journal (p-ISSN 2599-0497, e-ISSN 2581-0960) published by the Applied Foreign Language Department of Diponegoro University. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in developing a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It directly reflects the quality of the authors' work and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore essential to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society. 

The Applied Foreign Language Department, as the Kiryoku journal publisher, takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing too seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. The Vocational School of Diponegoro University and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The Kiryoku journal editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the journal's editorial board's policies and constrained by such legal requirements as in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not use in an editor's research without the author's express written consent.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that the authors have not cited. The relevant citation should accompany any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported. A reviewer should also call the editor's attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper they have personal knowledge. 

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. Authors are responsible for data reproducibility.

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.

Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Ethical Oversight 

If the research work involves chemicals, human, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript in order to obey ethical conduct of research using animals and human subjects. If required, Authors must provide legal ethical clearance from association or legal organization. 

If the research involves confidential data and of business/marketing practices, authors should clearly justify this matter whether the data or information will be hidden securely or not. 

Article Processing Charge

This journal charges the following author fees.
Article Publication (if article accepted for publication): 500.000 (IDR)
The author must pay the publication fee before the review process to Mandiri bank account 1360017010197 (Lenggahing Asri) and send proof of payment to email (kiryoku@live.undip.ac.id).

Payment will be fully refunded if the reviewer and editorial board reject the manuscript.

Response Policy for Submitted Articles

If the author does not respond to editorial communications within a period of three months, the article will be automatically rejected without any refund. This policy aims to ensure timely processing and publication of articles, and to maintain a smooth workflow for our editorial team. We advise authors to check their email regularly and respond promptly to any requests or communications from the journal.