Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 70:1 (2015) 83–122Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period TosaLuke S. Roberts- 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
- 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) 153–219Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shōtoku Taishi CultDavid Quinter- MN 69:2 (2014) 199–219Prince Shōtoku Ceremonial: Eison’s Shōtoku Taishi kōshikiEison, Translated by David Quinter
- MN 69:2 (2014) 221–54Japan’s Inca Boom: Global Archaeology and the Making of a Postwar NationMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- 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) 1–54A Medieval Warrior in Early Modern Japan: A Translation of the Otogizōshi Hōgan Miyako BanashiMathew W. Thompson- MN 69:1 (2014) 15–54Hōgan Miyako Banashi: The Tale of Yoshitsune in the CapitalMathew W. Thompson, Translated by Mathew W. Thompson
- MN 69:1 (2014) 55–101Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Urban Relief and Domain Society during the Tenmei FamineMaren Ehlers
- 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) 163–206The Early History of the Noh Play: Literacy, Authorship, and ScriptednessNoel John Pinnington- MN 68:2 (2013) 207–31Commemorating Failure: The Four Hundredth Anniversary of England’s Trading Outpost in JapanAdam Clulow
- MN 68:2 (2013) 233–80Kanokogi Kazunobu: Pioneer of Platonic Fascism and Imperial Pan-AsianismChristopher W. A. Szpilman