diff --git a/lib/expand.js b/lib/expand.js
index c8e985b3..d40368a3 100644
--- a/lib/expand.js
+++ b/lib/expand.js
@@ -213,12 +213,16 @@ api.expand = async ({
   // set the type-scoped context to the context on input, for use later
   typeScopedContext = activeCtx;
 
+  // Remember the first key found expanding to @type
+  let typeKey = null;
+
   // look for scoped contexts on `@type`
   for(const key of keys) {
     const expandedProperty = _expandIri(activeCtx, key, {vocab: true}, options);
     if(expandedProperty === '@type') {
       // set scoped contexts from @type
       // avoid sorting if possible
+      typeKey = typeKey || key;
       const value = element[key];
       const types =
         Array.isArray(value) ?
@@ -248,6 +252,7 @@ api.expand = async ({
     options,
     insideList,
     typeScopedContext,
+    typeKey,
     expansionMap});
 
   // get property count on expanded output
@@ -283,7 +288,10 @@ api.expand = async ({
     const types = _getValues(rval, '@type');
 
     // drop null @values unless custom mapped
-    if(values.length === 0) {
+    if(_processingMode(activeCtx, 1.1) && types.includes('@json') &&
+      types.length === 1) {
+      // Any value of @value is okay if @type: @json
+    } else if(values.length === 0) {
       const mapped = await expansionMap({
         unmappedValue: rval,
         activeCtx,
@@ -304,9 +312,6 @@ api.expand = async ({
         'Invalid JSON-LD syntax; only strings may be language-tagged.',
         'jsonld.SyntaxError',
         {code: 'invalid language-tagged value', element: rval});
-    } else if(_processingMode(activeCtx, 1.1) && types.includes('@json') &&
-      types.length === 1) {
-      // Any value of @value is okay if @type: @json
     } else if(!types.every(t =>
       (_isAbsoluteIri(t) && !(_isString(t) && t.indexOf('_:') === 0) ||
       _isEmptyObject(t)))) {
@@ -402,11 +407,19 @@ async function _expandObject({
   options = {},
   insideList,
   typeScopedContext,
+  typeKey,
   expansionMap
 }) {
   const keys = Object.keys(element).sort();
   const nests = [];
   let unexpandedValue;
+
+  // Figure out if this is the type for a JSON literal
+  const isJsonType = element[typeKey] &&
+    _expandIri(activeCtx,
+      (_isArray(element[typeKey]) ? element[typeKey][0] : element[typeKey]),
+      {vocab: true}, options) == '@json';
+
   for(const key of keys) {
     let value = element[key];
     let expandedValue;
@@ -517,8 +530,13 @@ async function _expandObject({
       // capture value for later
       // "colliding keywords" check prevents this from being set twice
       unexpandedValue = value;
-      _addValue(
-        expandedParent, '@value', value, {propertyIsArray: options.isFrame});
+      if(isJsonType && _processingMode(activeCtx, 1.1)) {
+        // no coercion to array, and retain all values
+        expandedParent['@value'] = value;
+      } else {
+        _addValue(
+          expandedParent, '@value', value, {propertyIsArray: options.isFrame});
+      }
       continue;
     }
 
@@ -803,6 +821,7 @@ async function _expandObject({
         expandedParent,
         options,
         insideList,
+        typeKey,
         expansionMap});
     }
   }
diff --git a/tests/test-common.js b/tests/test-common.js
index 81149cc1..d0a63ecc 100644
--- a/tests/test-common.js
+++ b/tests/test-common.js
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ const TEST_TYPES = {
         /compact-manifest.jsonld#tin03$/,
         /compact-manifest.jsonld#tin04$/,
         /compact-manifest.jsonld#tin05$/,
-        // @json null
-        /compact-manifest.jsonld#tjs11$/,
         // direction
         /compact-manifest.jsonld#tdi01$/,
         /compact-manifest.jsonld#tdi02$/,
@@ -113,8 +111,6 @@ const TEST_TYPES = {
         /expand-manifest.jsonld#te044$/,
         /expand-manifest.jsonld#te048$/,
         /expand-manifest.jsonld#te049$/,
-        /expand-manifest.jsonld#tjs22$/,
-        /expand-manifest.jsonld#tjs23$/,
         // protected null IRI mapping
         /expand-manifest.jsonld#tpr28$/,
         // remote
@@ -440,9 +436,6 @@ const TEST_TYPES = {
         /toRdf-manifest.jsonld#tdi10$/,
         /toRdf-manifest.jsonld#tdi11$/,
         /toRdf-manifest.jsonld#tdi12$/,
-        // JSON literal
-        /toRdf-manifest.jsonld#tjs22$/,
-        /toRdf-manifest.jsonld#tjs23$/,
       ]
     },
     fn: 'toRDF',