Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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) 1–36Rewriting Murasaki: Vernacular Translation and the Reception of Genji Monogatari during the Tokugawa PeriodRebekah Clements- MN 68:1 (2013) 37–68Masamune Hakuchō Reads Genji: A Translation of “Genji Monogatari: Hon’yaku to Gensaku”Michael Emmerich
- MN 68:1 (2013) 53–68Genji Monogatari: Hon’yaku to GensakuHakuchō Masamune, Translated by Michael Emmerich
- MN 68:1 (2013) 69–77Translating the Corpus of Ancient Japanese LawHerman Ooms
- MN 68:1 (2013) 79–88Of Allochthons and Alibis: Otherworldly Ideologies in Seventh- and Eighth-Century JapanDavid B. Lurie
- 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
- MN 68:1 (2013) 132–36Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature by Jeffrey AnglesMichele M. Mason
- MN 68:1 (2013) 136–39Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan’s Imperial Body by Noriko J. HoriguchiRebecca Copeland
- MN 68:1 (2013) 140–43Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, The Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955 by Bert Winther-TamakiMikiko Hirayama
- MN 68:1 (2013) 144–46The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within by Steve RabsonChristopher T. Nelson
- MN 68:1 (2013) 147–50Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima by Yuki MiyamotoJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 68:1 (2013) 150–53Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan by Sara KovnerHamish Ion
- MN 68:1 (2013) 154–56The Other Face of the Moon by Claude Lévi-Strauss; Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World by Claude Lévi-StraussScott Davis
- MN 68:1 (2013) 156–62Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan by Jolyon Baraka ThomasMark MacWilliams
MN 67:2 (2012) 201–38Gendering the Court Woman Poet: Pedigree and Portrayal in Fukuro zōshiRoselee Bundy- MN 67:2 (2012) 239–62Conflating Monastic and Imperial Lineage: The Retired Emperors’ Period ReformulatedMikael Bauer
- MN 67:2 (2012) 263–82The Dōshu: Clerics at Work in Early Medieval Japanese MonasteriesMikael S. Adolphson
- MN 67:2 (2012) 283–327(The Other) Yoshida Shigeru and the Expansion of Bureaucratic Power in Prewar JapanRoger H. Brown
- MN 67:2 (2012) 329–34Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan by Melissa McCormickMasahiko Aizawa
- MN 67:2 (2012) 334–37Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War by Andrew Edmund GobleFrederik Cryns
- MN 67:2 (2012) 338–41The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan by Emanuel PastreichPeter Flueckiger
- MN 67:2 (2012) 341–43Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640–1868 by Robert I. HellyerRyūtō Shimada
- MN 67:2 (2012) 343–48Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 1 (1850–1920) and Volume 2 (1920–Present) ed. Sven Saaler, Christopher W. A. SzpilmanDick Stegewerns
- MN 67:2 (2012) 348–52Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State by Janis MimuraChristopher W. A. Szpilman
- MN 67:2 (2012) 352–55Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan by Benjamin DormanInken Prohl
- MN 67:2 (2012) 355–61Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism by Mark Michael RoweYoshimasa Ikegami
- MN 67:2 (2012) 361–64Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals by Paula AraiGina Cogan
- MN 67:2 (2012) 364–66Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook ed. James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, John C. MaraldoMayuko Uehara