The biannual journal Impressions is sent to all paying members of the Japanese Art Society of America.
The most recent issue, Volume 45, Part Two of Double Issue, features 259 pages of articles and images in a collectible-quality format. (Click here to see the complete Table of Contents for Impressions 45 Part Two.) Additional copies of this issue can also be ordered for $25 through the JASA Store or our online Publications Order Form.
Impressions subscriptions for libraries and other institutions are available at $31 in the U.S. and $60 overseas per year (includes shipping). Discounts of 10 percent are available for quantities of 10 or more. To order, visit the JASA Store, or print and fill out the Institutional Subscription Form.
Back issues of journal Volumes 19 to 44 are $15 each; Volume 26 is available as a bound black-and-white copy, $30. Issues 1 to 18 are available in one volume of bound photocopies for $35. Complete sets, Volumes 1 to 44, are available for $250. Visit the Impressions Back Issues page to view previous volumes. To order, visit the JASA Store, or print and fill out the Publications Order Form.
Read a sample issue. Download Volume 31 pages 16 to 99 and pages 101 to 193.
JASA and Impermanent Press, our Impressions designer, has an award-winning history. Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) presented a 2024 American InHouse Design Award to Impermanent Press for Impressions 45 (2024), Part One of a Double Issue. Impressions No. 44 (2023), Parts One and Two, received GDUSA’s 2023 American Graphic Design Award. Impressions 44, Part One of a Double Issue (2023), also won the 2023 
Ozzie Award for design. (Eddie and Ozzie Awards, presented by Folio Magazine, are the magazine industry’s largest and most prestigious contest celebrating excellence in magazine editorial and design.) GDUSA announced that Impressions 43 Part One of Double Issue (2022) was a winner, among nearly 7,000 entries, in the 59th anniversary American Inhouse Design Awards, the oldest and largest program for in-house creative excellence.
JASA and our designer, Margery Cantor of Impermanent Press, received an American Graphic Design Award from GDUSA for our Impressions 42 (2021) double issue, as well as Impressions 41 (2020). 
In October 2017, Impressions 38 received prestigious Honorable Mentions from Folio for both the Eddie and the Ozzie Awards for design, as well as for editorial content in an international field of professional journals. In 2016, Impressions 37 received Honorable Mention in the Folio Eddie Awards for the best in print editorial in the Full Issue category. Rare Correspondence: Letters from Harry Packard to Edwin Grabhorn 1950–64, the supplementary issue of Impressions 36, received Honorable Mention in the Folio Ozzie Awards for the best in magazine design in the Overall Design category.
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