Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 79:2 (2024) New 167–214Through the Eyes of Ladies-in-Waiting: Female Spectatorship and the Power of Knowledge in the Genji ScrollsJoannah Peterson- MN 79:2 (2024) New 215–51Taming Dance in Meiji and Taishō Japan: Bon Dance Regulations, “Home Dance,” and the Creation of National CultureMargaret Mehl
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 253–56The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha by Bernard FaureNaomi Appleton
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 257–63The Kokinshū: Selected Poems by Torquil DuthieMariko Naito
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 264–67The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination by D. Max MoermanRadu Leca
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 267–74The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan by M. Antoni J. UcerlerLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 274–78The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877 ed. by David L. HowellTimothy D. Amos
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 278–84Kabuki’s Nineteenth Century: Stage and Print in Early Modern Edo by Jonathan E. ZwickerMatsuba Ryōko
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 285–88Japanese Racial Identities within US-Japan Relations, 1853–1919 by Tarik MeridaRotem Kowner
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 288–93Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire by Karli ShimizuSuga Kōji
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 294–98Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan by Sujin LeeMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 298–300Women’s Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire by Satoko KakiharaPeichen Wu
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 300–305The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji by Jonathan E. AbelHoyt Long
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 306–309From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia by Matthew R. AugustineSara Park
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 310–15Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan by Kerry SmithGregory Smits
- MN 79:2 (2024) New 316–18The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade: The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan by Paul E. DunscombAndrew Gordon
MN 79:1 (2024) 1–31Revisiting The Soil: Nagatsuka Takashi, Rural Japan, and the Limits of the Meiji NovelTyler Walker- MN 79:1 (2024) 33–82Overcoming Modernity, Exonerating Empire: Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko and the Ironies of Early Shōwa CatholicismChristopher T. Lough
- MN 79:1 (2024) 83–88Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE by Yiwen LiRobert Borgen
- MN 79:1 (2024) 88–90A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600 by Noel John PinningtonSusan Blakeley Klein
- MN 79:1 (2024) 91–94A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto: Edo-Period Writings on Annual Ceremonies, Festivals, and Customs by Gerald GroemerTimothy D. Amos
- MN 79:1 (2024) 95–101Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature by David C. AthertonRebekah Clements
- MN 79:1 (2024) 101–107Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan: Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780–1870 by Akira ShimizuJoshua Schlachet
- MN 79:1 (2024) 108–14Provincializing Empire: Ōmi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora by Jun UchidaMartin Dusinberre
- MN 79:1 (2024) 114–21Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty by Paul KreitmanWilliam M. Tsutsui
- MN 79:1 (2024) 122–25How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love by Leith MortonClaire Dodane
- MN 79:1 (2024) 125–30Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan by Anne Giblin GedachtAnthony Rausch
- MN 79:1 (2024) 130–35Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 by Seiji ShiraneFang Yu Hu
- MN 79:1 (2024) 135–41Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon by Heather Anne SwansonAike P. Rots
- MN 79:1 (2024) 141–47Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation ed. Alisa FreedmanLaura Hein
- MN 79:1 (2024) 147–53The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan by David HumphreyM. W. Shores
- MN 79:1 (2024) 153–62Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History by Rayna DenisonSteve Alpert
- MN 79:1 (2024) 162–66Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan by Timothy O. BenedictJason Danely
MN 78:2 (2023) 157–87Before the Storm: A Transrealm History of the Decades Leading Up to the First Mongol Invasion of JapanLina Nie- MN 78:2 (2023) 189–221Traces of Truth: Chūgan Engetsu’s KonhōronBrendan Arkell Morley
- MN 78:2 (2023) 223–30Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism by Mark J. HudsonSimon Kaner
- MN 78:2 (2023) 230–33Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan by Morgan PitelkaMark J. Hudson
- MN 78:2 (2023) 233–39Interactions between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c. 1549–c. 1647) ed. Alexandra Curvelo, Angelo CattaneoFrederik Cryns
- MN 78:2 (2023) 239–46A Path into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi by Caleb Swift CarterAndrea Castiglioni
- MN 78:2 (2023) 246–49Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of “Kōshiki” in Japanese Sōtō Zen by Michaela MrossFabio Rambelli
- MN 78:2 (2023) 249–54Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks by Kazuko Kameda-MadarChantal Weber
- MN 78:2 (2023) 254–58Demarcating Japan: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884 by Takahiro YamamotoRobert Hellyer
- MN 78:2 (2023) 258–62Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea by David FedmanChia-Li Chu and Kuang-Chi Hung
- MN 78:2 (2023) 262–67Discovering Women’s Voices: The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words by Sandra SchaalChristina Ghanbarpour
- MN 78:2 (2023) 267–73Science for Governing Japan’s Population by Aya HomeiOsamu Saito
- MN 78:2 (2023) 273–79Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan by Sabine FrühstückJan Bardsley
- MN 78:2 (2023) 279–84Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History by Eike ExnerGeorge T. Sipos
- MN 78:2 (2023) 284–89Making Audiences: A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media by Hideaki FujikiRea Amit