Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 64:2 (2009) 439–41Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance by Davinder L. BhowmikMichael Molasky- MN 64:2 (2009) 442–44War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges by Yoshiko NozakiKristine Dennehy
- MN 64:2 (2009) 445–49Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime ed. Mark W. MacWilliamsLynne K. Miyake
MN 64:1 (2009) 167–70Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku by Noel J. PinningtonSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 64:1 (2009) 170–73Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005 by Patricia J. GrahamSamuel C. Morse
- MN 64:1 (2009) 174–77Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony RothmanNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:1 (2009) 177–80The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760–1806). Volume 9 of Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute ed. W. J. BootAnn Bowman Jannetta
- MN 64:1 (2009) 180–83When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane’s Ethnography of the Other World by Wilburn HansenAnne Walthall
- MN 64:1 (2009) 183–85The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan by Ann JannettaSusan L. Burns
- MN 64:1 (2009) 185–88The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori by Mark RavinaConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 64:1 (2009) 189–91Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of “Literature” in Meiji Japan by Atsuko UedaIndra Levy
- MN 64:1 (2009) 192–95An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel by Ken K. ItoMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 64:1 (2009) 195–98The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitō, 1911–16 by Jan BardsleyReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 64:1 (2009) 198–201Hermann Roesler: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Werk ed. Anna Bartels-IshikawaSven Saaler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 201–204A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembō, Popular Song, and Modern Mass Culture in Japan by Michael LewisGerald Groemer
- MN 64:1 (2009) 204–207Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan by Nancy K. StalkerBirgit Staemmler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 207–10Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938 by Thomas W. BurkmanSusan Townsend
- MN 64:1 (2009) 210–13Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media by David C. EarhartBarak Kushner
- MN 64:1 (2009) 213–16The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II by Yuma TotaniFranziska Seraphim
- MN 64:1 (2009) 216–19The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity by Catherine RussellRachael Hutchinson
- MN 64:1 (2009) 219–23The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States by Rebecca SuterIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 64:1 (2009) 223–26Alles nur Theater? Gender und Ethnizität bei der japankoreanischen Autorin Yū Miri by Kristina Iwata-WeickgenanntMatthew Königsberg
- MN 64:1 (2009) 226–29Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army by Sabine FrühstückSharalyn Orbaugh
MN 63:2 (2008) 393–95State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-century Ruling Elite by Gina BarnesWalter Edwards- MN 63:2 (2008) 396–99La cour et l’administration du Japon à l’époque de Heian by Francine HérailCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 63:2 (2008) 400–402Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries ed. Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, Stacie MatsumotoThomas E. Keirstead
- MN 63:2 (2008) 402–404The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History by Mikael S. AdolphsonD. Max Moerman
- MN 63:2 (2008) 405–408Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism by Fabio RambelliHank Glassman
- MN 63:2 (2008) 408–10Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History by Steven D. CarterRoselee Bundy
- MN 63:2 (2008) 411–13Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku by Paul S. AtkinsRichard A. Gardner
- MN 63:2 (2008) 414–16Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan by Barbara AmbrosLaura Nenzi
- MN 63:2 (2008) 417–19Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty by Julie Nelson DavisAllen Hockley
- MN 63:2 (2008) 419–22The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan by Kyu Hyun KimNeil L. Waters
- MN 63:2 (2008) 423–25Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan by David G. WittnerSteven J. Ericson
- MN 63:2 (2008) 425–27Yamaji Aizan and His Time: Nationalism and Debating Japanese History by Yushi ItoGraham Squires
- MN 63:2 (2008) 428–31Petitessen, Pretiosen: Die Prosaminiatur in Japan um 1910 by Agnes Fink-von HoffJanet A. Walker
- MN 63:2 (2008) 431–33From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes by Richard J. SmethurstJames C. Baxter
- MN 63:2 (2008) 434–36Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times by Miriam SilverbergJeffrey Angles
- MN 63:2 (2008) 436–39Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Kim BrandtJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 63:2 (2008) 440–42Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s Past ed. John BreenTadashi Anno
- MN 63:2 (2008) 442–45Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction by Eve ZimmermanMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 63:2 (2008) 445–47Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime ed. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Takayuki TatsumiGerald Figal
MN 63:1 (2008) 161–63Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan: Ategawa no shō 1004–1304 by Judith FröhlichThomas Conlan- MN 63:1 (2008) 164–66Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan by William R. LindseyAmy Stanley
- MN 63:1 (2008) 167–69Japan’s Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889–1946: With a Supporting Study of the Kan/Min Division of Woodland in Early Meiji Japan, 1871–76 by Conrad TotmanDavid L. Howell
- MN 63:1 (2008) 169–72Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan by Andrew BernsteinJohn Breen
- MN 63:1 (2008) 172–74Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität 1919–1952 by Hans Martin KrämerHarald Fuess
- MN 63:1 (2008) 174–78Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation by Stephen G. CovellMark L. Blum