Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 78:2 (2023) 289–92The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De) Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia by Ayelet ZoharAsato Ikeda
MN 78:1 (2023) 1–89Timeless Todays in a Changing World: A Translation of Fujiwara no Nobuzane’s Ima monogatariErin L. Brightwell- MN 78:1 (2023) 35–89Today’s TalesFujiwara-no-Nobuzane, Translated by Erin L. Brightwell
- MN 78:1 (2023) 91–96Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age ed. Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-LiVyjayanthi R. Selinger
- MN 78:1 (2023) 96–101Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai by Paul GronerBrian D. Ruppert
- MN 78:1 (2023) 101–106Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan by Janine Anderson SawadaFumiko Miyazaki
- MN 78:1 (2023) 106–109Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of “Yonaoshi” Gods in Japan by Takashi MiuraReinhard Zöllner
- MN 78:1 (2023) 109–12Printed and Painted: The Meiji Art of Ogata Gekkō (1859–1920) by Amy Reigle Newland
- MN 78:1 (2023) 112–18In Close Association: Local Activist Networks in the Making of Japanese Modernity, 1868–1920 by Marnie S. Anderson
- MN 78:1 (2023) 118–21Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868–1912) by Atsuko Ueda
- MN 78:1 (2023) 121–26A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature by Michael K. BourdaghsJ. Keith Vincent
- MN 78:1 (2023) 126–33Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley
- MN 78:1 (2023) 133–36Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Jürgen P. Melzer
- MN 78:1 (2023) 136–41Dissecting the Danchi: Inside Japan’s Largest Postwar Housing Experiment by Tatiana KnorozLaura Neitzel
- MN 78:1 (2023) 141–44Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train by Jessamyn R. AbelMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- MN 78:1 (2023) 144–47The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo by M. W. ShoresAaron Gerow
- MN 78:1 (2023) 147–51Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan by John W. TraphaganJohn Mock
- MN 78:1 (2023) 151–56Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku by Ian Reader and John ShultzPhilip Seaton
MN 77:2 (2022) 207–58Neither Plagiarism nor Patchwork: The Culture of Citation and the Making of Authorship in Medieval Japanese PoetryPier Carlo Tommasi- MN 77:2 (2022) 259–94The Self-Fashioning of E. S. Morse: A Comparison of Japan Day by Day and Its Primary SourceHina Hirayama
- MN 77:2 (2022) 295–314A New Japanese-German DictionaryIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 77:2 (2022) 315–18Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, Technological, and Cultural Flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC–AD 600 by Song-nai Rhee, C. Melvin Aikens, and Gina L. Barnes.Richard D. McBride II
- MN 77:2 (2022) 319–22Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater by Susan Blakeley KleinPaul S. Atkins
- MN 77:2 (2022) 322–25The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan: Sōchō’s “Death of Sōgi” and “Kikaku’s Death of Master Bashō.” by H. Mack HortonGary L. Ebersole
- MN 77:2 (2022) 325–30Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery by Christine M. E. GuthLiliana Morais
- MN 77:2 (2022) 330–34The Tokugawa World ed. Gary P. Leupp and De-min TaoLaura Nenzi
- MN 77:2 (2022) 334–40Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity by Wei Yu Wayne TanGerald Groemer
- MN 77:2 (2022) 341–44Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and “Meisho Zue” in Late Tokugawa Japan by Robert GoreeR. Keller Kimbrough
- MN 77:2 (2022) 344–49Eight Dogs, or “Hakkenden”: Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest by Kyokutei Bakin, trans. Glynne WalleyWilliam C. Hedberg
- MN 77:2 (2022) 349–52Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World by Arthur M. MitchellWilliam O. Gardner
- MN 77:2 (2022) 352–55Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology by Annika A. Culver.Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- MN 77:2 (2022) 355–59Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan by Sherzod MuminovJames D. J. Brown
- MN 77:2 (2022) 359–64The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973: Managing a Free World by Naoko KodaNick Kapur
- MN 77:2 (2022) 364–69Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation by Christopher GerteisDustin Wright
- MN 77:2 (2022) 369–74Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism by Yoshikuni IgarashiMichele M. Mason
- MN 77:2 (2022) 374–78Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy by Tessa Morris-SuzukiMary Alice Haddad
- MN 77:2 (2022) 378–83More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. FrostWolfram Manzenreiter
- MN 77:2 (2022) 383–88Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism by Paul MidfordCorey Wallace
- MN 77:2 (2022) 388–94Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy by Gabriella LukácsNana Okura Gagné
- MN 77:2 (2022) 394–400The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan by Chikako Ozawa-de SilvaYuko Kawanishi
- MN 77:2 (2022) 400–402Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–2030 by Jeremy Breaden and Roger GoodmanReiko Yamada
MN 77:1 (2022) 1–26Versifying for Others: Akazome Emon’s Proxy PoemsTakeshi Watanabe- MN 77:1 (2022) 27–75Jesuit Printing and Hiragana BooksTakahiro Sasaki
- MN 77:1 (2022) 77–107Sacred Noh at Kanda MyōjinGerald Groemer
- MN 77:1 (2022) 109–15Uncertain Powers: Sen’yōmon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan by Sachiko KawaiPaula R. Curtis
- MN 77:1 (2022) 115–18Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives by Sachi Schmidt-HoriMargaret H. Childs
- MN 77:1 (2022) 119–25A Social History of Literacy in Japan ed. and trans. Richard RubingerMark Lincicome
- MN 77:1 (2022) 125–30Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan ed. Stefan Köck, Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia, and Bernhard ScheidMatthias Hayek