Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 80:1 (2025) New 103–106Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan: Traces of a Forgotten Ritual in Ancient Myths and Legends by Gaudenz DomenigMark Teeuwen- MN 80:1 (2025) New 106–14Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism by Aaron P. ProffittBrian D. Ruppert
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 115–22Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History by Mark TeeuwenIrit Averbuch, Original by Mark Teeuwen
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 122–25In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams by Frederik CrynsAdam Clulow
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 125–30Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories by Martin DusinberreTakahiro Yamamoto
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 130–34Histories of Children and Childhood in Meiji Japan edited by Christian Galan and Harald SalomonSabine Frühstück
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 134–40British Children’s Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking- Glasses by Catherine ButlerMelek Ortabasi
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 140–46Japanese Diplomacy and East Asian International Politics, 1918–1931 by Ryuji Hattori. Translated by Graham B. LeonardPaul E. Dunscomb
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 146–54Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame by Naoki YamamotoEarl Jackson
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 155–58Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan . Edited by Judith Vitale, Oleg Benesch, and Miriam Kingsberg Kadia.Martha Chaiklin
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 158–63Religion and Tourism in Japan: Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems by Ian ReaderParide Stortini
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 163–67The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age by Hoyt LongShion Kono
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 167–70Shadows of Nagasaki: Trauma, Religion, and Memory after the Atomic Bombing . Edited by Chad R. DiehlMark Williams
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 170–76Nippon Kaigi: Political Nationalism in Contemporary Japan. By Thierry Guthmann. Translated by Arthur StockwinErnils Larsson
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 177–80Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers: A Special Collection of Essays . Edited by Nina Cornyetz and Rebecca CopelandMichiko Suzuki
- MN 80:1 (2025) New 180–83Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual by Igor PrusaTakehiro Watanabe
MN 79:2 (2024) 253–56The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha by Bernard FaureNaomi Appleton- MN 79:2 (2024) 264–67The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination by D. Max MoermanRadu Leca
- MN 79:2 (2024) 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) 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) 278–84Kabuki’s Nineteenth Century: Stage and Print in Early Modern Edo by Jonathan E. ZwickerMatsuba Ryōko
- MN 79:2 (2024) 285–88Japanese Racial Identities within US-Japan Relations, 1853–1919 by Tarik MeridaRotem Kowner
- MN 79:2 (2024) 288–93Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire by Karli ShimizuSuga Kōji
- MN 79:2 (2024) 294–98Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan by Sujin LeeMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- MN 79:2 (2024) 298–300Women’s Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire by Satoko KakiharaPeichen Wu
- MN 79:2 (2024) 300–305The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji by Jonathan E. AbelHoyt Long
- MN 79:2 (2024) 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) 310–15Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan by Kerry SmithGregory Smits
- MN 79:2 (2024) 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) 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) 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