Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 75:2 (2020) 352–55Caste in Early Modern Japan: Danzaemon and the Edo Outcaste Order by Timothy D. AmosConstantine N. Vaporis- MN 75:2 (2020) 355–62Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms by Wai-ming NgBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 75:2 (2020) 362–65La foi des ancêtres: Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise XVIIe –XIXe siècles by Martin Nogueira RamosNathalie Kouamé
- MN 75:2 (2020) 365–69Tetsugaku Companion to Ogyū Sorai ed. W. J. Boot and Takayama DaikiKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 75:2 (2020) 369–72The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670–1800 by David N. WellsIgor R. Saveliev
- MN 75:2 (2020) 373–7747: The True Story of the Vendetta of the 47 Ronin from Akō by Thomas HarperJeroen Lamers
- MN 75:2 (2020) 377–81Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress’ Court by Mamiko C. SuzukiElizabeth D. Lublin
- MN 75:2 (2020) 381–84Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan by G. Clinton GodartJason Ānanda Josephson-Storm
- MN 75:2 (2020) 385–89Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan by James Mark ShieldsHans Martin Krämer
- MN 75:2 (2020) 389–92In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire by Eiichiro AzumaTze M. Loo
- MN 75:2 (2020) 393–97Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi OsakiAndrew Feenberg
- MN 75:2 (2020) 397–404Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel SneiderBarak Kushner
- MN 75:2 (2020) 404–408Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster by Rachel DiNittoJordi Serrano-Muñoz
MN 75:1 (2020) 123–26How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. CarterThomas E. McAuley- MN 75:1 (2020) 126–31China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F. VogelKenneth B. Pyle
- MN 75:1 (2020) 132–34A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea by William Wayne FarrisMartha Chaiklin
- MN 75:1 (2020) 135–37Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca CorbettRobert Hellyer
- MN 75:1 (2020) 138–43Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism by Robert EskildsenYoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
- MN 75:1 (2020) 144–50The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 by Sidney Xu LuHannah Shepherd
- MN 75:1 (2020) 150–56Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan by Sabine FrühstückMichele M. Mason
- MN 75:1 (2020) 156–61Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace by Oleg Benesch and Ran ZwigenbergPhilip Seaton
- MN 75:1 (2020) 161–65Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan’s National Pastime by Christopher T. KeaveneyWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 75:1 (2020) 165–68Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community by Richard J. SamuelsDanny Orbach
- MN 75:1 (2020) 168–72Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire by David R. Ambaras; Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples by Kirsten L. ZiomekErik Esselstrom
- MN 75:1 (2020) 173–76Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. WardTomoko Seto
- MN 75:1 (2020) 176–79Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu NagaharaShunsuke Nozawa
- MN 75:1 (2020) 179–81Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 by Robert KrammBill Mihalopoulos
- MN 75:1 (2020) 182–84Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. SmithGiulio Pugliese
- MN 75:1 (2020) 185–91Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo by Nick KapurPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 75:1 (2020) 191–96Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan NapierMihaela Mihailova
- MN 75:1 (2020) 197–99Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. SmithMary Alice Haddad
- MN 75:1 (2020) 200–203Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles by Alexander BrownRobin O'Day
MN 74:2 (2019) 249–53Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770 by Dorothy C. WongAkiko Walley- MN 74:2 (2019) 253–56Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. PiggottPierre François Souyri
- MN 74:2 (2019) 257–61Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan by Caitilin J. GriffithsChristina Laffin
- MN 74:2 (2019) 261–64A Maritime History of East Asia ed. Masashi Haneda and Mihoko OkaAdam Clulow
- MN 74:2 (2019) 264–71The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves by Lúcio de SousaGeoffrey C. Gunn
- MN 74:2 (2019) 272–73Engaging the Other: ‘Japan’ and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. TobyKären Wigen
- MN 74:2 (2019) 273–78Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A. EhlersJames L. Huffman
- MN 74:2 (2019) 278–81Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan by James L. HuffmanTimothy D. Amos
- MN 74:2 (2019) 281–87Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist by John NathanJ. Keith Vincent
- MN 74:2 (2019) 288–93Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim YasarScott W. Aalgaard
- MN 74:2 (2019) 293–97A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) by Gala Maria FollacoRachael Hutchinson
- MN 74:2 (2019) 297–305Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary by Michael P. CroninAndrew Murakami-Smith
- MN 74:2 (2019) 305–307The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present ed. Tosh MinoharaPeter Mauch
- MN 74:2 (2019) 307–12The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book by Sari KawanaJonathan E. Abel
- MN 74:2 (2019) 312–15The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War by Asato IkedaMaki Kaneko
- MN 74:2 (2019) 316–19The Japanese and the War: From Expectation to Memory by Michael LuckenAaron William Moore