Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 70:1 (2015) 173–75Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature: The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya by Nanyan GuoJoseph S. O'Leary- MN 70:1 (2015) 175–83Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and Its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918–1937 by Fabian SchäferSimone Müller
- MN 70:1 (2015) 183–87Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan by William MarottiMiki Kaneda
MN 69:2 (2014) 255–59Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan by Yui SuzukiYoko Hsueh Shirai- MN 69:2 (2014) 259–63A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics: Signs, Ontology, and Salvation in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism by Fabio RambelliMark Teeuwen
- MN 69:2 (2014) 263–72The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Haruko WakabayashiMark L. Blum
- MN 69:2 (2014) 272–75Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590) ed. Derek MassarellaJan C. Leuchtenberger
- MN 69:2 (2014) 275–77Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature by Jan C. LeuchtenbergerPeter Nosco
- MN 69:2 (2014) 278–83Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan by Amy StanleyDavid Eason
- MN 69:2 (2014) 284–91Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women by Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Linda H. ChanceAnne Walthall
- MN 69:2 (2014) 292–94An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850 ed. Sumie Jones, Kenji WatanabeLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 69:2 (2014) 295–301Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction by J. Keith VincentHosea Hirata
- MN 69:2 (2014) 301–305Views of the Dark Valley: Japanese Cinema and the Culture of Nationalism 1937–1945 by Harald SalomonMichael Baskett
- MN 69:2 (2014) 306–309Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits by Bruce BairdWilliam Marotti
- MN 69:2 (2014) 309–14Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan by Barbara R. AmbrosEllen Schattschneider
MN 69:1 (2014) 103–109Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake by Joshua A. FogelGina L. Barnes- MN 69:1 (2014) 109–13Knowing the Amorous Man: A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise by Jamie L. NewhardRobert N. Huey
- MN 69:1 (2014) 113–16Schreib-Riten (shorei 書礼): Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der japanischen Briefetikette by Markus RüttermannW. J. Boot
- MN 69:1 (2014) 117–21Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater by Lim Beng ChooShelley Fenno Quinn
- MN 69:1 (2014) 121–23The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga by Ōta Gyūichi, trans. and ed. J. S. A. Elisonas, J. P. LamersMorten Oxenboell
- MN 69:1 (2014) 124–29An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan by G. G. RowleyC. Miki Wheeler
- MN 69:1 (2014) 130–32Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan ed. Keller Kimbrough, Satoko ShimazakiMichael G. Watson
- MN 69:1 (2014) 132–36Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art ed. Timothy Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami, Akiko Yano; Shunga: Sex and Humor in Japanese Art and Literature ed. C. Andrew Gerstle, Timothy Clark; Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan by Rosina BucklandAllen Hockley
- MN 69:1 (2014) 137–41Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan by Timon ScreechElizabeth Lillehoj
- MN 69:1 (2014) 142–45Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease by Alexander R. BaySusan L. Burns
- MN 69:1 (2014) 145–48The Kyoto School: An Introduction by Robert E. CarterErin McCarthy
- MN 69:1 (2014) 148–52Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan by Peter Wynn KirbyTom Gill
MN 68:2 (2013) 281–84Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737 by H. Mack HortonTorquil Duthie- MN 68:2 (2013) 284–89The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Hank GlassmanSusanne Formanek
- MN 68:2 (2013) 289–92Japoniæ Insvlæ: The Mapping of Japan; Historical Introduction and Cartobibliography of European Printed Maps of Japan to 1800 by Jason C. HubbardBruce L. Batten
- MN 68:2 (2013) 293–96The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Maki FukuokaKaren M. Fraser
- MN 68:2 (2013) 296–301Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of ‘National Learning’ and the Formation of Scholarly Societies by Michael WachutkaHelen Hardacre
- MN 68:2 (2013) 301–13The Invention of Religion in Japan by Jason Ānanda Josephson; A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography 1910–1945 by Alan ChristyIan Reader
- MN 68:2 (2013) 313–16Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique ed. Michele M. Mason, Helen J. S. LeeElise Foxworth
- MN 68:2 (2013) 316–21Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World by Aaron Herald SkabelundElmer Veldkamp
- MN 68:2 (2013) 321–27Wer und was bin ich? Zur Phänomenologie des Selbst im Zen-Buddhismus by Shizuteru UedaBret W. Davis
- MN 68:2 (2013) 327–31From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–1989 ed. Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Kenji Kajiya, Fumihiko SumitomoMing Tiampo
MN 68:1 (2013) 89–94Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing by David B. LurieJohn Timothy Wixted- MN 68:1 (2013) 94–99Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200) by Joseph T. SorensenRoselee Bundy
- MN 68:1 (2013) 99–101How Ajātaśatru Was Reformed: The Domestication of “Ajase” and Stories in Buddhist History by Michael RadichThierry Jean Roboüam
- MN 68:1 (2013) 101–107From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan by Thomas Donald ConlanMikael S. Adolphson
- MN 68:1 (2013) 107–10Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo ShiraneElizabeth Oyler
- MN 68:1 (2013) 110–14Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan by H. Byron EarhartGaynor Sekimori
- MN 68:1 (2013) 114–18Im Wettstreit mit dem Westen: Japans Zeitalter der Ausstellungen 1854–1941 by Daniel HedingerMichael Facius
- MN 68:1 (2013) 119–21Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s “Ainu Shin’yōshū” by Sarah M. StrongGary L. Ebersole
- MN 68:1 (2013) 121–24Sex in Japan’s Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building by Bill MihalopoulosBarbara Molony
- MN 68:1 (2013) 125–28The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010 by Patricia L. MaclachlanEiji Kawabata
- MN 68:1 (2013) 128–32Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan by Deborah ShamoonNoriko J. Horiguchi