Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 66:2 (2011) 247–80The Last Word?: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “The Man from the West”Kevin M. Doak- 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
- MN 66:2 (2011) 379–81Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan ed. Jan Bardsley, Laura MillerChristine R. Yano
- MN 66:2 (2011) 381–83Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law by Mark D. WestJ. Mark Ramseyer
- MN 66:2 (2011) 384–86Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity by David W. EdgingtonTakehiro Watanabe
MN 66:1 (2011) 1–47Zaō Gongen: From Mountain Icon to National TreasureHeather Blair- MN 66:1 (2011) 59–97OguriTranslated by Susan Matisoff
- MN 66:1 (2011) 49–97Oguri: An Early Edo Tale of Suffering, Resurrection, Revenge, and DeificationSusan Matisoff
- MN 66:1 (2011) 99–122King Willem II’s 1844 Letter to the Shogun: “Recommendation to Open the Country”Adam Clulow and Fuyuko Matsukata
- MN 66:1 (2011) 123–45“State Shinto” in Recent Japanese ScholarshipMichiaki Okuyama
- MN 66:1 (2011) 147–49With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision by Cynthea J. BogelRichard Bowring
- MN 66:1 (2011) 150–53Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan by Lori MeeksMiriam Levering
- MN 66:1 (2011) 154–56War and State Building in Medieval Japan ed. John A. Ferejohn, Frances McCall RosenbluthBruce L. Batten
- MN 66:1 (2011) 156–59Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism by Peter FlueckigerPeter Nosco
- MN 66:1 (2011) 159–61Japan’s Frames of Meaning: A Hermeneutics Reader by Michael F. MarraJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 66:1 (2011) 161–65Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity: Hokusai’s Hyakunin Isshu by Ewa MachotkaJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 66:1 (2011) 165–67American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859–73 by Hamish IonM. William Steele
- MN 66:1 (2011) 168–73Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time by Joshua A. Fogel; China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895–1904 by Urs Matthias ZachmannRobert Eskildsen
- MN 66:1 (2011) 173–75Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895–1945 by Mark DriscollAlexis Dudden
- MN 66:1 (2011) 176–80Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary by Kenneth J. RuoffRoger H. Brown
- MN 66:1 (2011) 180–84Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War by Naoko ShimazuSven Saaler
- MN 66:1 (2011) 184–88Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895–1925 by Aaron GerowHarald Salomon
- MN 66:1 (2011) 188–91Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan by Hiroshi KitamuraDeborah Shamoon
- MN 66:1 (2011) 191–94The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan by Lee Yeounsuk, trans. Maki Hirano HubbardAtsuko Ueda
- MN 66:1 (2011) 195–97Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons by Julian DierkesPhilip Seaton
- MN 66:1 (2011) 198–201Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan by Simon Andrew AvenellGabriele Vogt
- MN 66:1 (2011) 201–205The Other Women’s Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women’s Fiction by Julia C. BullockJoan E. Ericson
- MN 66:1 (2011) 205–207The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation by Thomas LamarreShion Kono
MN 65:2 (2010) 2010Editor’s NoteMark R. Mullins- MN 65:2 (2010) 273–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa DeityTranslated by Anna Andreeva
- MN 65:2 (2010) 245–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity: A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern JapanAnna Andreeva
- MN 65:2 (2010) 297–356Kanazōshi Revisited: The Beginnings of Japanese Popular Literature in PrintLaura Moretti