Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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) 49–97Oguri: An Early Edo Tale of Suffering, Resurrection, Revenge, and DeificationSusan Matisoff
- MN 66:1 (2011) 59–97OguriTranslated by Susan 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) 245–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity: A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern JapanAnna Andreeva
- MN 65:2 (2010) 273–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa DeityTranslated by Anna Andreeva
- MN 65:2 (2010) 297–356Kanazōshi Revisited: The Beginnings of Japanese Popular Literature in PrintLaura Moretti
- MN 65:2 (2010) 357–95From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930s (Images)Mikiko Hirayama
- MN 65:2 (2010) 397–400Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition by Michael I. ComoW. J. Boot
- MN 65:2 (2010) 400–402The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan by Karen M. GerhartHank Glassman
- MN 65:2 (2010) 402–406Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian Century, 1549–1650 by Haruko Nawata WardJan C. Leuchtenberger
- MN 65:2 (2010) 406–409Makoto und Aufrichtigkeit: Eine Begriffs- und Diskursgeschichte by Gerhard BierwirthPeter Flueckiger
- MN 65:2 (2010) 409–12Hitomaro: Poet as God by Anne CommonsRoselee Bundy
- MN 65:2 (2010) 413–16The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 by Simon PartnerJames C. Baxter
- MN 65:2 (2010) 416–18Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Mark E. CaprioDon Baker
- MN 65:2 (2010) 418–22The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan by Ken C. KawashimaJeffrey Bayliss
- MN 65:2 (2010) 423–25Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan by Hiromi MizunoSally Ann Hastings
- MN 65:2 (2010) 425–29Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism by Walter A. SkyaHans Martin Krämer
- MN 65:2 (2010) 429–33Chinkon kishin: Mediated Spirit Possession in Japanese New Religions by Birgit StaemmlerBarbara Ambros
- MN 65:2 (2010) 433–35Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture by Michiko SuzukiSusanna Fessler
- MN 65:2 (2010) 435–39Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Post-war Literature and Film ed. David Stahl, Mark WilliamsRichard Torrance
- MN 65:2 (2010) 439–42The Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance by Hugh de FerrantiMathew W. Thompson
- MN 65:2 (2010) 442–45Atlas historique de Kyōto: Analyse spatiale des systèmes de mémoire d’une ville, de son architecture et de son paysage urbain by Nicolas FiévéHenry D. Smith II
- MN 65:2 (2010) 445–48Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites by Satsuki KawanoIan Reader
- MN 65:2 (2010) 357–95From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930sMikiko Hirayama