Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 53:2 (1998) 153–95Fact, Fiction, and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in Tōnomine Shōshō MonogatariAileen Gatten- MN 53:2 (1998) 197–223Abandoned Fields: Negotiating Taxes in the Bakufu DomainPatricia Sippel
- MN 53:2 (1998) 225–35Dispossessed Melodies: Recordings of the Kawakami Theater TroupeJ. Scott Miller
- MN 53:2 (1998) 237–55Studies of Japan, Area Studies, and the Challenges of Social TheoryIan Reader
- MN 53:2 (1998) 257–63The Context of Everyday ThingsOsamu Saitō
MN 53:1 (1998) 1–11Sixty Monumental YearsMichael Cooper- MN 53:1 (1998) 45–71Philosophy and Inflation: Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922–1924Michiko Yusa
- MN 53:1 (1998) 73–104Digging for Edo: Archaeology and Japan’s Premodern Urban PastConstantine N. Vaporis
MN 52:4 (1997) 441–65Allegories of Desire: Poetry and Eroticism in Ise Monogatari ZuinōSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 52:4 (1997) 467–521Saigyō’s Traveling Tale: A Translation of Saigyō MonogatariGustav Heldt
- MN 52:4 (1997) 523–540Japanese Rule in Korea after the March First Uprising: Governor General Hasegawa’s RecommendationsRichard Devine
- MN 52:4 (1997) 541–546The Taitokuin MausoleumWilliam H. Coaldrake
MN 52:3 (1997) 295–325Poetry, Sake, and Acrimony: Arakida Hisaoyu and the Kokugaku MovementMark Teeuwen- MN 52:3 (1997) 327–56“Bush Clover and Moon”: A Relational Reading of Oku no HosomichiChristine Murasaki Millett
- MN 52:3 (1997) 357–80Severing the Karmic Ties that Bind: The “Divorce Temple” MantokujiDiana E. Wright
- MN 52:3 (1997) 381–97A Golden Age of Fatherhood? Parent-Child Relations in Japanese HistoriographyHarald Fuess
MN 52:2 (1997) 145–80Embodiment/Disembodiment: Japanese Painting during the Fifteen-Year WarBert Winther-Tamaki- MN 52:2 (1997) 181–99Tarrying with the Negative: Aesthetic Vision in Murasaki and MishimaJohn R. Wallace
- MN 52:2 (1997) 201–34Crossed Paths: Zeami’s Transmission to ZenchikuNoel J. Pinnington
- MN 52:2 (1997) 235–57Attaining Landscapes in the Mind: Nature Poetry and Painting in Gozan ZenJoseph D. Parker
MN 52:1 (1997) 1–34Tokugawa Authority and Chinese Exemplars: The Teikan Zusetsu Murals of Nagoya CastleKaren M. Gerhart- MN 52:1 (1997) 35–58Dissent from Within: Hasegawa Nyozekan, Liberal Critic of FascismMary L. Hanneman
- MN 52:1 (1997) 59–84Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dōjōji Engi EmakiVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 52:1 (1997) 85–102Obama: The Rise and Decline of a SeaportIsao Soranaka
- MN 52:1 (1997) 103–16Japan in 1996
MN 51:4 (1996) 407–29The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics, and Power in the RestorationJohn Breen- MN 51:4 (1996) 431–60Kiyokata’s Asasuzu: The Emergence of the Jogakusei ImageMariko Inoue
MN 51:3 (1996) 279–307A Tour of Duty: Kurume Hanshi Edo Kinban Nagaya EmakiConstantine N. Vaporis- MN 51:3 (1996) 309–16Nishida and HearnMichiko Yusa
- MN 51:3 (1996) 317–56Hero as Murderer in ChikamatsuC. Andrew Gerstle
- MN 51:3 (1996) 357–74Purely Mass or Massively Pure? The Division between ‘Pure’ and ‘Mass’ LiteratureMatthew C. Strecher
MN 51:2 (1996) 143–51Ōe no Masafusa and the Practice of Heian AutobiographyMarian Ury and Robert Borgen- MN 51:2 (1996) 153–70Female Self-Writing: Takamure Itsue’s Hi no Kuni no Onna no NikkiRonald P. Loftus
- MN 51:2 (1996) 171–87Dodoitsubō Senka and the Yose of EdoGerald Groemer
- MN 51:2 (1996) 189–217The Way of Yin and Yang: A Tradition Revived, Sold, AdoptedLee A. Butler
- MN 51:2 (1996) 219–44An Errant Priest: Sasayaki TakeFrederick G. Kavanagh
- MN 51:2 (1996) 245–56Recent German Books on JapanCarl Steenstrup
MN 51:1 (1996) 1–15The Nature of the Kami: Ueda Akinari and Tandai Shōshin RokuSusanna Fessler- MN 51:1 (1996) 53–79In Pursuit of Himiko: Postwar Archaeology and the Location of YamataiWalter Edwards
- MN 51:1 (1996) 81–105The Nishida Enigma: ‘The Principle of the New World Order’Yoko Arisaka
- MN 51:1 (1996) 107–20Japan in 1995
MN 50:4 (1995) 433–84The Shogun’s ‘Painting Match’Karen L. Brock- MN 50:4 (1995) 523–528Beauty and Illusion: Tanizaki in VenicePaul McCarthy
- MN 50:4 (1995) 529–535A Poetics of Pure ArtLeith Morton
- MN 50:4 (1995) 537–550Nikolai of JapanEvgeny Steiner
MN 50:3 (1995) 305–23The Literature and Politics of Abe Kōbō: Farewell to Communism in Suna no OnnaMutsuko Motoyama- MN 50:3 (1995) 325–56Women, Sexuality, and Enlightenment: Kankyo no TomoRajyashree Pandey
- MN 50:3 (1995) 357–84Ōe no Masafusa and the Spirit of MichizaneRobert Borgen