Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 67:2 (2012) 366–69Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868−2000 ed. J. Thomas RimerToby Slade- MN 67:2 (2012) 369–71Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam SasBruce Baird
- MN 67:2 (2012) 371–74“The Moon over the Mountain”: Stories by Atsushi Nakajima trans. Paul McCarthy, Nobuko Ochner —8Charles De Wolf
- MN 67:2 (2012) 374–76Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga by Jennifer S. Prough —7Susan Napier
- MN 67:2 (2012) 376–81Recreating Japanese Men ed. Sabine Frühstück, Anne Walthall —6Michael Lewis
- MN 67:2 (2012) 381–84Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics by Sherry L. Martin —5Deborah J. Milly
- MN 67:2 (2012) 384–87Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan by Martin Dusinberre —4Takehiro Watanabe
384–87Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan by Martin DusinberreTakehiro Watanabe- 381–84Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics by Sherry L. MartinDeborah J. Milly
- 376–81Recreating Japanese Men ed. Sabine Frühstück, Anne WalthallMichael Lewis
- 374–76Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga by Jennifer S. ProughSusan Napier
- 371–74“The Moon over the Mountain”: Stories by Atsushi Nakajima trans. Paul McCarthy, Nobuko OchnerCharles De Wolf
MN 67:1 (2012) 1–27Not Just Words: Shogunal Politics and the Daijōsai in Mori Ōgai’s “Saigo no ikku”Doris G. Bargen- MN 67:1 (2012) 29–73Literary Accounts of the Decline of SenbaRichard Torrance
- MN 67:1 (2012) 75–131Holy Waifs! Sages Adrift in Mori Makiko’s Yellow Harlot CollectionMaryellen Toman Mori
- MN 67:1 (2012) 133–57Cultural Nationalism in Japanese Neo-New Religions: A Comparative Study of Mahikari and Kōfuku no KagakuHotaka Tsukada and Gaynor Sekimori
- MN 67:1 (2012) 159–64A New History of Shinto by John Breen, Mark Teeuwen; Rethinking Medieval Shintō. Special issue of Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (16) ed. Bernard Faure, Michael Como, Iyanaga NobumiKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 67:1 (2012) 164–68Performing/Painting in Tokugawa Japan: Artistic Practice and Socio-Economic Functions of Sekiga (Paintings on the Spot) by Alexander HofmannBrenda G. Jordan
- MN 67:1 (2012) 168–70The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan ed. P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, G. G. RowleyJanet R. Goodwin
- MN 67:1 (2012) 170–73Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan by Philip C. BrownAnne Walthall
- MN 67:1 (2012) 173–78Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan by Eric C. Rath; Japanese Foodways: Past and Present ed. Eric C. Rath, Stephanie AssmannConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 67:1 (2012) 178–82A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600–1912 by Kären WigenMarcia Yonemoto
- MN 67:1 (2012) 182–84Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 by Tetsuo NajitaMark Metzler
- MN 67:1 (2012) 184–87Under Eagle Eyes: Lithographs, Drawings and Photographs from the Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860–61 ed. Sebastian Dobson, Sven SaalerDerek Massarella
- MN 67:1 (2012) 187–89Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan by Timothy D. AmosIan Neary
- MN 67:1 (2012) 189–93Negotiating Identity: Nakagami Kenji’s Kiseki and the Power of the Tale by Anne Helene Thelle; Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity by Anne McKnightRachael Hutchinson
- MN 67:1 (2012) 193–96Japan im Pazifischen Krieg: Herrschaftssystem, politische Willensbildung und Friedenssuche by Gerhard KrebsPeter Pantzer
- MN 67:1 (2012) 196–99Xavier’s Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture by Kevin M. DoakHelen J. Ballhatchet
MN 66:2 (2011) 209–46The End of the “World”: Tsuruya Nanboku IV’s Female Ghosts and Late-Tokugawa KabukiSatoko Shimazaki- MN 66:2 (2011) 247–80The Last Word?: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “The Man from the West”Kevin M. Doak
- MN 66:2 (2011) 257–80“The Man from the West” and “The Man from the West: The Sequel”Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Translated by Kevin M. Doak and J. Scott Matthews
- MN 66:2 (2011) 281–318Japan’s “Nationality Clause” and the Changing Dynamics of Center-Local PoliticsKate Dunlop
- MN 66:2 (2011) 319–33Fascist Moments: New Research on Twentieth-Century Japanese Aesthetics and IdeologyIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 66:2 (2011) 335–38Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture by Jun’ichi Isomae, trans. Mukund SubramanianTorquil Duthie
- MN 66:2 (2011) 338–41Legend and Legitimation: The Formation of Tendai Esoteric Buddhism in Japan by Jinhua ChenJames L. Ford
- MN 66:2 (2011) 341–44Kūkai on the Philosophy of Language by Shingen Takagi, Thomas Eijō DreitleinEric H. Swanson
- MN 66:2 (2011) 344–49Christianity and Cultures: Japan & China in Comparison, 1543–1644 ed. M. Antoni J. ÜçerlerHaruko Nawata Ward
- MN 66:2 (2011) 349–51Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan ed. Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Gregory SmitsJeffrey Newmark
- MN 66:2 (2011) 352–55Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement by Mara PatessioEmily Anderson
- MN 66:2 (2011) 355–57Reforming Japan: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period by Elizabeth Dorn LublinYosuke Nirei
- MN 66:2 (2011) 358–60The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson by William E. NaffMarvin Marcus
- MN 66:2 (2011) 360–64Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature by Karen Laura ThornberChristian Uhl
- MN 66:2 (2011) 364–65This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud by Margherita LongEve Zimmerman
- MN 66:2 (2011) 366–68The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature by Leith MortonDennis Washburn
- MN 66:2 (2011) 369–71Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō by Christopher BoltonJoseph Murphy
- MN 66:2 (2011) 372–74The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan: The Career of Matsumoto Jiichirō by Ian NearyDaniel Botsman
- MN 66:2 (2011) 374–76When Empire Comes Home: Repatriates and Reintegration in Postwar Japan by Lori WattSally Ann Hastings
- MN 66:2 (2011) 377–78The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century by Sebastian Conrad, trans. Alan NothnagleFranziska Seraphim