The papers published in JPSJ should treat fundamental and novel problems of physics scientifically and logically, and contribute to the development in the understanding of physics. The concrete objects are listed below.

Subjects Covered
JPSJ covers all the fields of physics including (but not restricted to)

Elementary particles and fields
Nuclear physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Fluid Dynamics
Plasma physics
Physics of Condensed Matter
Metal, Superconductor, Semiconductor, Magnetic Materials, Dielectric Materials
Physics of Nanoscale Materials
Optics and Quantum Electronics
Physics of Complex Systems
Mathematical Physics
Chemical physics
Biophysics
Geophysics
Astrophysics.