Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 79:1 (2024) 147–53The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan by David HumphreyM. W. Shores- MN 79:1 (2024) 153–62Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History by Rayna DenisonSteve Alpert
- MN 79:1 (2024) 162–66Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan by Timothy O. BenedictJason Danely
MN 78:2 (2023) 157–87Before the Storm: A Transrealm History of the Decades Leading Up to the First Mongol Invasion of JapanLina Nie- MN 78:2 (2023) 189–221Traces of Truth: Chūgan Engetsu’s KonhōronBrendan Arkell Morley
- MN 78:2 (2023) 223–30Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism by Mark J. HudsonSimon Kaner
- MN 78:2 (2023) 230–33Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan by Morgan PitelkaMark J. Hudson
- MN 78:2 (2023) 233–39Interactions between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c. 1549–c. 1647) ed. Alexandra Curvelo, Angelo CattaneoFrederik Cryns
- MN 78:2 (2023) 239–46A Path into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi by Caleb Swift CarterAndrea Castiglioni
- MN 78:2 (2023) 246–49Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of “Kōshiki” in Japanese Sōtō Zen by Michaela MrossFabio Rambelli
- MN 78:2 (2023) 249–54Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks by Kazuko Kameda-MadarChantal Weber
- MN 78:2 (2023) 254–58Demarcating Japan: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884 by Takahiro YamamotoRobert Hellyer
- MN 78:2 (2023) 258–62Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea by David FedmanChia-Li Chu and Kuang-Chi Hung
- MN 78:2 (2023) 262–67Discovering Women’s Voices: The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words by Sandra SchaalChristina Ghanbarpour
- MN 78:2 (2023) 267–73Science for Governing Japan’s Population by Aya HomeiOsamu Saito
- MN 78:2 (2023) 273–79Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan by Sabine FrühstückJan Bardsley
- MN 78:2 (2023) 279–84Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History by Eike ExnerGeorge T. Sipos
- MN 78:2 (2023) 284–89Making Audiences: A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media by Hideaki FujikiRea Amit
- 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. AndersonHaiying Hou
- 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