Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 77:1 (2022) 201–205Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan by Jan BardsleySusan Napier
MN 76:2 (2021) 363–66Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago: Exploring the Japanese Skyscape by Akira GotoJeffrey Kotyk- MN 76:2 (2021) 367–72Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan’s Medieval “Mirror” Genre by Erin L. BrightwellDavid Spafford
- MN 76:2 (2021) 372–75The Namban Trade: Merchants and Missionaries in 16th and 17th Century Japan by Mihoko OkaAdam Clulow
- MN 76:2 (2021) 375–78Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan by Laura MorettiR. Keller Kimbrough
- MN 76:2 (2021) 378–82“Kanbunmyaku”: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature by Mareshi SaitōPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 76:2 (2021) 382–85From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, “Kokugaku,” and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Gideon FujiwaraMark Teeuwen
- MN 76:2 (2021) 385–90The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation ed. Robert Hellyer and Harald FuessDaniel Botsman
- MN 76:2 (2021) 390–95Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868–1937 by Peer VriesMark Metzler
- MN 76:2 (2021) 395–400Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan by Miya Elise Mizuta LippitNoriko Murai
- MN 76:2 (2021) 400–404Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups by Robert HellyerWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 76:2 (2021) 404–11Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan by Hiroko MatsudaKirsten L. Ziomek
- MN 76:2 (2021) 411–14Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah KovnerMahon Murphy
- MN 76:2 (2021) 414–17Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 by Benjamin UchiyamaJanis Mimura
- MN 76:2 (2021) 417–19Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain’s War with Japan by Peter KornickiJoshua A. Fogel
- MN 76:2 (2021) 419–22Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan by Jolyon Baraka ThomasTrent Maxey
- MN 76:2 (2021) 423–30Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding ed. Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov; In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia ed. Barak Kushner and Andrew LevidisPhilip Seaton
- MN 76:2 (2021) 430–37The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday by Woojeong JooMichael Raine
- MN 76:2 (2021) 437–39The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan by Mayumi ItohJay Alabaster
- MN 76:2 (2021) 440–43Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific by Saori N. KatadaKristi Govella
- MN 76:2 (2021) 444–45Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society by Gracia Liu-FarrerMichael Strausz
MN 76:1 (2021) 163–67Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World by Thomas R. H. HavensJon L. Pitt- MN 76:1 (2021) 167–71Akutō and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan by Morten OxenboellEthan Segal
- MN 76:1 (2021) 172–74The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy by Michael LaverMartha Chaiklin
- MN 76:1 (2021) 175–80What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan ed. Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia YonemotoAnnick Horiuchi
- MN 76:1 (2021) 180–85Japan Supernatural: Ghosts, Goblins and Monsters, 1700 to Now ed. Melanie EastburnAdam L. Kern
- MN 76:1 (2021) 185–89Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy StanleyRebecca Corbett
- MN 76:1 (2021) 189–92Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan by Matthew FraleighJonathan Zwicker
- MN 76:1 (2021) 193–98Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan by Sven SaalerRumi Sakamoto
- MN 76:1 (2021) 198–201Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period by Taka OshikiriMeghen Jones
- MN 76:1 (2021) 201–206Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform by Steven J. EricsonPenelope Francks
- MN 76:1 (2021) 206–209American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan by Elisheva A. PerelmanSusan L. Burns
- MN 76:1 (2021) 209–15Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan by Nozomi NaoiKendall H. Brown
- MN 76:1 (2021) 215–20Age of “Shōjo”: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction by Hiromi Tsuchiya DollaseMichiko Suzuki
- MN 76:1 (2021) 220–24Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan by Amy Bliss MarshallJan Bardsley
- MN 76:1 (2021) 224–27Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo by Janet BorlandGregory Smits
- MN 76:1 (2021) 227–31Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives by Chad R. DiehlHibiki Yamaguchi
- MN 76:1 (2021) 231–34The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction by William O. GardnerMichael P. Cronin
- MN 76:1 (2021) 235–39Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan by Michael StrauszGabriele Vogt
- MN 76:1 (2021) 239–43Japanese Culture through Videogames by Rachael HutchinsonDouglas Schules
- MN 76:1 (2021) 243–47Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society by Susanne KlienAnthony Rausch
MN 75:2 (2020) 317–21Waka and Things, Waka as Things by Edward KamensSteven D. Carter- MN 75:2 (2020) 321–28The Worship of Confucius in Japan by James McMullenW. J. Boot
- MN 75:2 (2020) 328–33Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan by Takeshi WatanabeSonja Arntzen
- MN 75:2 (2020) 333–41Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art by Halle O’NealCynthea J. Bogel
- MN 75:2 (2020) 341–45Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” by Sujung KimAndrew Macomber
- MN 75:2 (2020) 345–49Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan by Susan L. BurnsWaka Hirokawa
- MN 75:2 (2020) 350–52Samurai: An Encyclopedia of Japan’s Cultured Warriors by Constantine Nomikos VaporisKarl F. Friday