Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 73:1 (2018) 111–14Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonaldAnnika A. Culver- MN 73:1 (2018) 115–19Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyM. G. Sheftall
- MN 73:1 (2018) 119–26The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan by Gavin WalkerViren Murthy
- MN 73:1 (2018) 126–31Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao by Michael Lucken, trans. Francesca SimkinMiriam Wattles
- MN 73:1 (2018) 131–33War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945–1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil ed. Kerstin von LingenSarah Kovner
- MN 73:1 (2018) 134–40The Comfort Women: Historical, Political, Legal, and Moral Perspectives by Kumagai Naoko, trans. David NobleBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 73:1 (2018) 140–43The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan by Laura NeitzelAnn Waswo
- MN 73:1 (2018) 143–48Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement by Simon AvenellTimothy S. George
- MN 73:1 (2018) 148–53Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests by Aike P. RotsThierry Guthmann
- MN 73:1 (2018) 153–60Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy by Amy CatalinacPaul Midford
- MN 73:1 (2018) 160–64Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice: From Jurors to Lay Judges by Andrew WatsonDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 73:1 (2018) 164–67Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan by Miloš DebnárRotem Kowner
- MN 73:1 (2018) 167–70Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan by Kumiko NemotoJan Bardsley
- MN 73:1 (2018) 170–77Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster ed. Barbara Geilhorn, Kristina Iwata-WeickgenanntRoman Rosenbaum
MN 72:2 (2017) 265–69Kindheit in der japanischen Geschichte: Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen/Childhood in Japanese History: Concepts and Experiences ed. Michael Kinski, Harald Salomon, Eike GroßmannSabine Frühstück- MN 72:2 (2017) 270–75Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory ed. Mikael S. Adolphson, Anne CommonsRobert Borgen
- MN 72:2 (2017) 275–77Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan by Jacqueline I. StoneGary L. Ebersole
- MN 72:2 (2017) 278–81Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan by Edward R. DrottRajyashree Pandey
- MN 72:2 (2017) 281–86Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives by Rajyashree PandeyVyjayanthi R. Selinger
- MN 72:2 (2017) 287–93Dōgen and Sōtō Zen ed. Steven HeineTaigen Dan Leighton
- MN 72:2 (2017) 293–99Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan by Anna AndreevaMark Teeuwen
- MN 72:2 (2017) 299–305Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350–1850 ed. Martha ChaiklinCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 72:2 (2017) 305–14The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush, ed. William J. Haboush, Jisoo M. KimJames B. Lewis
- MN 72:2 (2017) 314–17Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 ed. Tonio Andrade, Xing HangNaoko Iioka
- MN 72:2 (2017) 317–21In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582–1860 by Richard BowringMark T. McNally
- MN 72:2 (2017) 322–25Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan by Noell WilsonLuke S. Roberts
- MN 72:2 (2017) 325–31Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974 by Stefan Huebner; Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II: Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home? by Sven Matthiessen; Asianisms: Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration ed. Marc Frey, Nicola SpakowskiJeff Kingston
- MN 72:2 (2017) 331–34Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O’DwyerRana Mitter
- MN 72:2 (2017) 334–37Surviving in Violent Conflicts: Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931–1945 by Ting GuoParks M. Coble
- MN 72:2 (2017) 337–44Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō by Richard F. CalichmanSeth Jacobowitz
- MN 72:2 (2017) 344–50Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan by Joseph D. HankinsDaniel Botsman
- MN 72:2 (2017) 350–54Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance by Geoffrey M. White; Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Lisa YoneyamaAkiko Hashimoto
- MN 72:2 (2017) 354–56Post-war Japan as a Sea Power: Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of a Navy by Alessio PatalanoJames R. Holmes
- MN 72:2 (2017) 356–61Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law by J. Mark RamseyerColin P.A. Jones
- MN 72:2 (2017) 361–68Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima by Aya Hirata KimuraRyo Morimoto
MN 72:1 (2017) 71–73Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by Charlotte von Verschuer, trans. and ed. Wendy CobcroftPhilip C. Brown- MN 72:1 (2017) 74–76Reading “The Tale of Genji”: Sources from the First Millennium ed. Thomas Harper, Haruo ShiraneLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 72:1 (2017) 76–83The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. HesselinkLane R. Earns
- MN 72:1 (2017) 84–87Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan PitelkaTimon Screech
- MN 72:1 (2017) 87–91The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia YonemotoAnne Walthall
- MN 72:1 (2017) 92–95The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine, trans. Lina Terrell, ed. Robert HueyGregory Smits
- MN 72:1 (2017) 95–99Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600–1900: The Beggar’s Gift by Gerald GroemerLaura Nenzi
- MN 72:1 (2017) 100–104Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki; Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater by Maki IsakaC. Andrew Gerstle
- MN 72:1 (2017) 105–109Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan ed. Peter Nosco, James E. Ketelaar, Yasunori KojimaAnnick Horiuchi
- MN 72:1 (2017) 110–13Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution by Terrence JacksonNiels van Steenpaal
- MN 72:1 (2017) 114–18Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan by Mark Thomas McNallyKiri Paramore
- MN 72:1 (2017) 119–23Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps ed. Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary KaracasTodd Stradford
- MN 72:1 (2017) 123–25Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887–1920 by Kazuhiro OharazekiBill Mihalopoulos