Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 71:1 (2016) 186–91Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō by Isomae Jun’ichi, trans. Galen Amstutz, Lynne E. RiggsJolyon Baraka Thomas- MN 71:1 (2016) 191–95Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity by Hyung Il PaiTakashi Yoshida
- MN 71:1 (2016) 195–200Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 by Robert StolzTakehiro Watanabe
- MN 71:1 (2016) 200–206Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium ed. Susan L. Burns, Barbara J. BrooksMarie Seong-Hak Kim
- MN 71:1 (2016) 206–11Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God by Emily AndersonHamish Ion
- MN 71:1 (2016) 211–16Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972 by Eric C. HanRobert Eskildsen
- MN 71:1 (2016) 217–22Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea by Albert L. Park; Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910 by Yumi MoonDon Baker
- MN 71:1 (2016) 222–27Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Todd A. HenryVladimir Tikhonov
- MN 71:1 (2016) 227–33Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan by Hideaki FujikiRyan Cook
- MN 71:1 (2016) 233–37Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction by Rebecca SuterStephen Roddy
- MN 71:1 (2016) 237–40Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-garde by Samuel PerrySunyoung Park
- MN 71:1 (2016) 241–44Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan by Louise YoungMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- MN 71:1 (2016) 244–47Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle by Mark MetzlerSimon James Bytheway
- MN 71:1 (2016) 247–53Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan BardsleyUlrike Wöhr
- MN 71:1 (2016) 253–58Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan ed. George Ehrhardt, Axel Klein, Levi McLaughlin, Steven R. ReedHelen Hardacre
- MN 71:1 (2016) 258–61From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea by Takashi YoshidaPhilip Seaton
MN 70:2 (2015) 285–88Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present ed. Bruce L. Batten, Philip C. BrownPatricia Sippel- MN 70:2 (2015) 289–93Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation by Joshua S. MostowIvo Smits
- MN 70:2 (2015) 293–97Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan by Peter D. ShapinskyNoell Wilson
- MN 70:2 (2015) 297–300A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang ed. and trans. JaHyun Kim Haboush, Kenneth R. RobinsonJames B. Lewis
- MN 70:2 (2015) 301–305The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo by Miriam WattlesPauline Ayumi Ota
- MN 70:2 (2015) 306–309The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan by Gina CoganG. G. Rowley
- MN 70:2 (2015) 309–14Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan ed. Matthias Hayek, Annick HoriuchiBrian W. Platt
- MN 70:2 (2015) 314–21Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake by Gregory Smits; When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan by Gregory SmitsM. William Steele
- MN 70:2 (2015) 321–26Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan by Hiraku ShimodaJames L. Huffman
- MN 70:2 (2015) 326–28Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee KimJames Mark Shields
- MN 70:2 (2015) 329–31The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo by Ian Jared MillerMartha Chaiklin
- MN 70:2 (2015) 331–36Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan by Rosina BucklandAida Yuen Wong
- MN 70:2 (2015) 336–41An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937 by Jung-Sun N. HanPaul E. Dunscomb
- MN 70:2 (2015) 341–44In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere by Faye Yuan KleemanJohn Whittier Treat
- MN 70:2 (2015) 345–48Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan by Noriko AsoKendall H. Brown
- MN 70:2 (2015) 348–51On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan by Jeffrey Paul BaylissKristine Dennehy
- MN 70:2 (2015) 352–56Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice by Kristin SurakNancy Stalker
- MN 70:2 (2015) 356–62The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke MiyaoDiane Wei Lewis
- MN 70:2 (2015) 363–67The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956 by Andrew E. BarshayLori Watt
- MN 70:2 (2015) 367–71Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics by Yuriko FuruhataMariko Shigeta Schimmel
- MN 70:2 (2015) 371–76Precarious Japan by Anne AllisonDaniel White
MN 70:1 (2015) 123–27Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan by Torquil DuthieH. Mack Horton- MN 70:1 (2015) 127–32Ise, poétesse et dame de cour by Renée GardeMichel Vieillard-Baron
- MN 70:1 (2015) 132–35The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan by Adam ClulowBruce L. Batten
- MN 70:1 (2015) 135–41Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912 by Atsuko HiraiMark Teeuwen
- MN 70:1 (2015) 141–45Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950 by Fabian DrixlerWilliam Johnston
- MN 70:1 (2015) 146–51The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Stanleigh H. Jones; Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater by R. Keller KimbroughKatherine Saltzman-Li
- MN 70:1 (2015) 151–55Hell-bent for Heaven in Tateyama Mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain by Caroline HirasawaElizabeth ten Grotenhuis
- MN 70:1 (2015) 155–58Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai trans. Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, John BreenLaura Nenzi
- MN 70:1 (2015) 159–63Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society: Suzuki Bokushi, A Rural Elite Commoner by Takeshi MoriyamaNiels van Steenpaal
- MN 70:1 (2015) 163–69The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature by Michael EmmerichDennis Washburn
- MN 70:1 (2015) 170–73Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho KonishiCurtis Anderson Gayle