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MN 63:2 (2008) 325–57Literature as Life-Form: Media and Modernism in the Literary Theory of Ōkuma NobuyukiWilliam O. Gardner- MN 63:2 (2008) 359–92Graphically Speaking: Manga Versions of The Tale of GenjiLynne K. Miyake
- MN 63:2 (2008) 393–95State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-century Ruling Elite by Gina BarnesWalter Edwards
- MN 63:2 (2008) 396–99La cour et l’administration du Japon à l’époque de Heian by Francine HérailCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 63:2 (2008) 400–402Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries ed. Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, Stacie MatsumotoThomas E. Keirstead
- MN 63:2 (2008) 402–404The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History by Mikael S. AdolphsonD. Max Moerman
- MN 63:2 (2008) 405–408Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism by Fabio RambelliHank Glassman
- MN 63:2 (2008) 408–10Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History by Steven D. CarterRoselee Bundy
- MN 63:2 (2008) 411–13Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku by Paul S. AtkinsRichard A. Gardner
- MN 63:2 (2008) 414–16Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan by Barbara AmbrosLaura Nenzi
- MN 63:2 (2008) 417–19Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty by Julie Nelson DavisAllen Hockley
- MN 63:2 (2008) 419–22The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan by Kyu Hyun KimNeil L. Waters
- MN 63:2 (2008) 423–25Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan by David G. WittnerSteven J. Ericson
- MN 63:2 (2008) 425–27Yamaji Aizan and His Time: Nationalism and Debating Japanese History by Yushi ItoGraham Squires
- MN 63:2 (2008) 428–31Petitessen, Pretiosen: Die Prosaminiatur in Japan um 1910 by Agnes Fink-von HoffJanet A. Walker
- MN 63:2 (2008) 431–33From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes by Richard J. SmethurstJames C. Baxter
- MN 63:2 (2008) 434–36Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times by Miriam SilverbergJeffrey Angles
- MN 63:2 (2008) 436–39Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Kim BrandtJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 63:2 (2008) 440–42Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s Past ed. John BreenTadashi Anno
- MN 63:2 (2008) 442–45Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction by Eve ZimmermanMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 63:2 (2008) 445–47Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime ed. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Takayuki TatsumiGerald Figal
- MN 63:2 (2008) 2008Seventieth Anniversary MessageKate Wildman-Nakai
MN 63:1 (2008) 1–50The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and ImaginationCaroline Hirasawa- MN 63:1 (2008) 51–99Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National SymbolAndrew Bernstein
- MN 63:1 (2008) 101–41Seeking the Strange: Ryōki and the Navigation of Normality in Interwar JapanJeffrey Angles
- MN 63:1 (2008) 143–60Reading a Heian Blog: A New Translation of Makura no SōshiMachiko Midorikawa
- MN 63:1 (2008) 161–63Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan: Ategawa no shō 1004–1304 by Judith FröhlichThomas Conlan
- MN 63:1 (2008) 164–66Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan by William R. LindseyAmy Stanley
- MN 63:1 (2008) 167–69Japan’s Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889–1946: With a Supporting Study of the Kan/Min Division of Woodland in Early Meiji Japan, 1871–76 by Conrad TotmanDavid L. Howell
- MN 63:1 (2008) 169–72Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan by Andrew BernsteinJohn Breen
- MN 63:1 (2008) 172–74Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität 1919–1952 by Hans Martin KrämerHarald Fuess
- MN 63:1 (2008) 174–78Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation by Stephen G. CovellMark L. Blum
- MN 63:1 (2008) 178–81Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis und Diskriminierung: Die gegenwärtige Diskussion im Shin-Buddhismus Japans by Simone HeideggerJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 63:1 (2008) 181–84Traditional Japanese Literature ed. Haruo ShiraneRobert N. Huey
- MN 63:1 (2008) 184–90Secrecy in Japanese Arts: “Secret Transmission” as a Mode of Knowledge by Maki MorinagaSusan Blakeley Klein
- MN 63:1 (2008) 190–93Bashō and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai by Peipei QiuLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 63:1 (2008) 193–95Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival by Cheryl A. CrowleyRoger K. Thomas
- MN 63:1 (2008) 196–98The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan ed. Rebecca Copeland, Melek OrtabasiReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 63:1 (2008) 198–203Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery by Gregory P. A. LevineYukio Lippit
- MN 63:1 (2008) 203–205Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism by Thomas R. H. HavensWilliam O. Gardner
- MN 63:1 (2008) 206–208The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture by Mari BoydBrian Powell
- MN 63:1 (2008) 208–10Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity by Katarzyna J. CwiertkaJames Farrer
- MN 63:1 (2008) 211–12Editorial Notes
MN 62:4 (2007) 397–435Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin DocumentsWilliam Wayne Farris- MN 62:4 (2007) 459–68Account of the Origin of the Hannyaji Mañjuśrī: A Translation of Hannyaji Monju EngiEison, Translated by David Quinter
- MN 62:4 (2007) 469–79Votive Text for the Construction of the Hannyaji Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva Statue: A Translation of Hannyaji Monju Bosatsu Zō Zōryū GanmonEison, Translated by David Quinter
- MN 62:4 (2007) 437–79Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Hinin, and the “Living Mañjuśrī”David Quinter
- MN 62:4 (2007) 481–85Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500–1300 by Bruce L. BattenCharlotte von Verschuer