Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 64:2 (2009) 384–86Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike by David T. BialockMichael G. Watson- MN 64:2 (2009) 387–90Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales by Michelle Osterfeld LiRajyashree Pandey
- MN 64:2 (2009) 390–93Zeami: Performance Notes trans. Tom HareEric C. Rath
- MN 64:2 (2009) 393–97Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater by Thomas D. LooserNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:2 (2009) 397–400Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos VaporisAnna Beerens
- MN 64:2 (2009) 400–404Moderne japanische Literatur in deutscher Übersetzung: Eine Bibliographie der Jahre 1868–2008 ed. Jürgen Stalph, Christoph Petermann, Matthias Wittig; Japanische Literatur im Spiegel deutscher Rezensionen ed. Junko Ando, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Matthias HoopHilaria Gössmann
- MN 64:2 (2009) 405–408Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai by Michael Dylan FosterSatoko Shimazaki
- MN 64:2 (2009) 408–11Crossing Empire’s Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia by Erik EsselstromSelcuk Esenbel
- MN 64:2 (2009) 412–14When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism by Gregory GolleyMark Williams
- MN 64:2 (2009) 415–18Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature by Tomoko AoyamaIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 64:2 (2009) 418–24Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture by Sari Kawana; Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937 by Mark SilverEvelyn Schulz
- MN 64:2 (2009) 424–28Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan ed. and trans. Richard F. CalichmanChristian Uhl
- MN 64:2 (2009) 428–31Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan by Rachel DiNittoAlisa Freedman
- MN 64:2 (2009) 431–33Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan by Elyssa FaisonSally Ann Hastings
- MN 64:2 (2009) 434–35Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity by Sharalyn OrbaughEve Zimmerman
- MN 64:2 (2009) 436–38Ausgekochtes Wunderland: Japanische Literatur lesen by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitKristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
- MN 64:2 (2009) 439–41Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance by Davinder L. BhowmikMichael Molasky
- MN 64:2 (2009) 442–44War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges by Yoshiko NozakiKristine Dennehy
- MN 64:2 (2009) 445–49Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime ed. Mark W. MacWilliamsLynne K. Miyake
MN 64:1 (2009) 1–52The Lamp-Oil Merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine: Transregional Commerce in Medieval JapanSuzanne Gay- MN 64:1 (2009) 53–82One Classic and Two Classical Traditions: The Recovery and Transmission of a Lost Edition of the AnalectsBenjamin A. Elman
- MN 64:1 (2009) 83–125Clerical Demographics in the Edo-Meiji Transition: Shingon and Tōzanha Shugendō in Western SagamiBarbara Ambros
- MN 64:1 (2009) 127–66Narrative Realism and the Modern Storyteller: Rereading Yanagita Kunio’s Tōno MonogatariMelek Ortabasi
- MN 64:1 (2009) 167–70Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku by Noel J. PinningtonSusan Blakeley Klein
- MN 64:1 (2009) 170–73Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005 by Patricia J. GrahamSamuel C. Morse
- MN 64:1 (2009) 174–77Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony RothmanNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:1 (2009) 177–80The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760–1806). Volume 9 of Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute ed. W. J. BootAnn Bowman Jannetta
- MN 64:1 (2009) 180–83When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane’s Ethnography of the Other World by Wilburn HansenAnne Walthall
- MN 64:1 (2009) 183–85The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan by Ann JannettaSusan L. Burns
- MN 64:1 (2009) 185–88The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori by Mark RavinaConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 64:1 (2009) 189–91Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of “Literature” in Meiji Japan by Atsuko UedaIndra Levy
- MN 64:1 (2009) 192–95An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel by Ken K. ItoMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 64:1 (2009) 195–98The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitō, 1911–16 by Jan BardsleyReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 64:1 (2009) 198–201Hermann Roesler: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Werk ed. Anna Bartels-IshikawaSven Saaler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 201–204A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembō, Popular Song, and Modern Mass Culture in Japan by Michael LewisGerald Groemer
- MN 64:1 (2009) 204–207Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan by Nancy K. StalkerBirgit Staemmler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 207–10Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938 by Thomas W. BurkmanSusan Townsend
- MN 64:1 (2009) 210–13Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media by David C. EarhartBarak Kushner
- MN 64:1 (2009) 213–16The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II by Yuma TotaniFranziska Seraphim
- MN 64:1 (2009) 216–19The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity by Catherine RussellRachael Hutchinson
- MN 64:1 (2009) 219–23The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States by Rebecca SuterIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 64:1 (2009) 223–26Alles nur Theater? Gender und Ethnizität bei der japankoreanischen Autorin Yū Miri by Kristina Iwata-WeickgenanntMatthew Königsberg
- MN 64:1 (2009) 226–29Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army by Sabine FrühstückSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 64:1 (2009) 230–33CorrespondenceThomas Conlan and Judith Fröhlich
MN 63:2 (2008) 211–38Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi’s KokuikōPeter Flueckiger- MN 63:2 (2008) 239–63Reflections on the Meaning of Our CountryKamo no Mabuchi, Translated by Peter Flueckiger
- MN 63:2 (2008) 265–81Interview with Two Ladies of the Ōoku: A Translation from Kyūji ShimonrokuAnna Beerens
- MN 63:2 (2008) 283–324Interview with Two Ladies of the ŌokuTranslated by Anna Beerens