Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 59:4 (2004) 525–533Paradigm Regained: Taking Syncretism SeriouslyD. Max Moerman
MN 59:3 (2004) 285–319Cultured Travelers and Consumer Tourists in Edo-Period SagamiLaura Nenzi- MN 59:3 (2004) 321–58A Voice of the Tenpō Era: The Poetics of Ōkuma KotomichiRoger K. Thomas
- MN 59:3 (2004) 359–89Teika and the Others: Poetics, Poetry, and Politics in Early Medieval JapanIvo Smits
- MN 59:3 (2004) 391–94Meiji Music in BerlinJ. Scott Miller
MN 59:2 (2004) 153–77Out of the Mouths of Nurses: “The Tale of Sagoromo” and Midranks RomanceCharo B. D'Etcheverry- MN 59:2 (2004) 179–222The Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival ScreenReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 59:2 (2004) 223–44Medieval Experience, Modern Visions: Women in BuddhismRajyashree Pandey
- MN 59:2 (2004) 245–55Confucian Idealism and “The Tale of Genji”Naoaki Hiraishi
MN 59:1 (2004) 1–34Visions of the Dead: Kano Tan’yū’s Paintings of Tokugawa Iemitsu’s DreamsKaren M. Gerhart- MN 59:1 (2004) 35–82Living Icons: “Reizō” Myths of the Saikoku Kannon PilgrimageMark MacWilliams
- MN 59:1 (2004) 83–119An Extraordinary Odyssey: The Iwakura Embassy TranslatedF. G. Notehelfer, Igor R. Saveliev and W. F. Vande Walle
MN 58:4 (2003) 439–93A Chūshingura Palimpsest: Young Motoori Norinaga Hears the Story of the Akō Rōnin from a Buddhist PriestFederico Marcon and Henry D. Smith II- MN 58:4 (2003) 495–529Childhood Reimagined: The Memoirs of Ōgai’s ChildrenTomoko Aoyama
MN 58:3 (2003) 293–315Confucian Perspectives on the Akō Revenge: Law and Moral AgencyJames McMullen- MN 58:3 (2003) 317–46The Demon-Quelling Style in Medieval Japanese Poetic and Dramatic TheoryPaul S. Atkins
- MN 58:3 (2003) 347–96Oil Painting in Postsurrender Japan: Reconstructing Subjectivity through Deformation of the BodyBert Winther-Tamaki
- MN 58:3 (2003) 397–405The Orientation of the Body: Between Performance and NatureAtsuko Sakaki
MN 58:2 (2003) 149–70The Akō Incident, 1701–1703Masahide Bitō and Henry D. Smith II- MN 58:2 (2003) 171–92The Scar: A Story from SeitōReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 58:2 (2003) 193–222Coming to Terms with the Alien: Translations of “Genji Monogatari”Machiko Midorikawa
- MN 58:2 (2003) 223–58Comfort Women: Beyond Litigious FeminismBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
MN 58:1 (2003) 1–42The Capacity of Chūshingura: Three Hundred Years of ChūshinguraHenry D. Smith II- MN 58:1 (2003) 43–78Terms of Understanding: The Shōsetsu according to Tayama KataiMatthew Fraleigh
- MN 58:1 (2003) 79–102Regendering Domestic Space: Modern Housing in Prewar TokyoMariko Inoue
- MN 58:1 (2003) 103–16Identity, Nihonjinron, and Academic (Dis) honestyIan Reader
MN 57:4 (2002) 413–45Japan’s Foreign Relations 1200 to 1392 A.D.: A Translation from “Zenrin Kokuhōki”Charlotte von Verschuer- MN 57:4 (2002) 447–71Journeys, Pilgrimages, Excursions: Religious Travels in the Early Modern PeriodLaura Nenzi and Toshikazu Shinno
- MN 57:4 (2002) 473–507Koganei Kimiko: A Meiji-Born Woman WriterAngela Yiu
- MN 57:4 (2002) 509–528Digitalizing Japanese ArtHenry D. Smith II and Matthew P. McKelway
MN 57:3 (2002) 271–307Secret Buddhas: The Limits of Buddhist RepresentationFabio Rambelli- MN 57:3 (2002) 309–37The Unfinished Cartography: Murakami Haruki and the Postmodern Cognitive MapChiyoko Kawakami
- MN 57:3 (2002) 339–48“A” RevisitedRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:3 (2002) 349–58The Ambiguous Legacy of Modern Japanese PhilosophyJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 57:3 (2002) 359–72The Polymorphous Canon: Identity and InventionPaul Gordon Schalow
MN 57:2 (2002) 133–71Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and “The Matsushima Diary”R. Keller Kimbrough- MN 57:2 (2002) 207–27Shugendō: The State of the FieldGaynor Sekimori
MN 57:1 (2002) 43–71Oratory in Meiji and Taishō Japan: Public Speaking and the Formation of a New Written LanguageMassimiliano Tomasi- MN 57:1 (2002) 73–89The Love Suicides at Shinagawa: A Sort of Love StoryDavid Pollack
MN 56:4 (2001) 521–544The Nanking Massacre: Now You See It, . . .Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi- MN 56:4 (2001) 487–520Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Rural Japan, 1925–1965Simon Partner
- MN 56:4 (2001) 439–86Yosano Akiko’s Poems: “In Praise of The Tale of Genji”G. G. Rowley
MN 56:3 (2001) 295–347Chats with the Master: Selections from “Kensai Zōdan”Steven D. Carter- MN 56:3 (2001) 349–80The Guild of the Blind in Tokugawa JapanGerald Groemer
- MN 56:3 (2001) 381–95Literacy Revisited: Some Reflections on Richard Rubinger’s FindingsPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 56:3 (2001) 397–403Considering the Alchemy of RelicsMimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
MN 56:2 (2001) 139–71Yamaji Aizan’s Traces of the Development of Human Rights in Japanese HistoryGraham Squires- MN 56:2 (2001) 197–237Rescuing the Nation from History: The State of the State in Early Modern JapanRonald P. Toby