Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 59:4 (2004) 569–572Japan’s Modern Theatre: A Century of Continuity and Change by Brian PowellPeter Eckersall- MN 59:4 (2004) 572–575Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs by Laura SpielvogelWolfram Manzenreiter
- MN 59:4 (2004) 576Errata
MN 59:3 (2004) 285–319Cultured Travelers and Consumer Tourists in Edo-Period SagamiLaura Nenzi- MN 59:3 (2004) 337–58MonologueKotomichi Ōkuma, Translated by Roger K. Thomas
- MN 59:3 (2004) 321–58A Voice of the Tenpō Era: The Poetics of Ōkuma KotomichiRoger K. Thomas
- MN 59:3 (2004) 359–89Teika and the Others: Poetics, Poetry, and Politics in Early Medieval JapanIvo Smits
- MN 59:3 (2004) 391–94Meiji Music in BerlinJ. Scott Miller
- MN 59:3 (2004) 395–97An Archaeological History of Japan 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 by Koji MizoguchiWalter Edwards
- MN 59:3 (2004) 398–400Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Sukefusa: Traduction du Shunki by Francine HérailRoyall Tyler
- MN 59:3 (2004) 400–403Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kangaku Juku by Margaret MehlBrian W. Platt
- MN 59:3 (2004) 403–406The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent: New Perspectives on the History of Japanese Turkish Relations by Selçuk Esenbel, Inaba ChiharuIgor R. Saveliev
- MN 59:3 (2004) 406–409Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History by M. William SteeleKerry Smith
- MN 59:3 (2004) 409–11Wer war Takeuchi Yoshimis Lu Xun? Ein Annäherungsversuch an ein Monument der japanischen Sinologie by Christian UhlHans Martin Krämer
- MN 59:3 (2004) 411–14Just Living: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna by Steven D. CarterLinda H. Chance
- MN 59:3 (2004) 414–16Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women by Makoto UedaAnne Walthall
- MN 59:3 (2004) 416–18“Berichte über Gesehenes und Gehörtes aus der Ansei-Zeit” (Ansei kemmonshi): Kanagaki Robuns (1829–1894) Bericht über das grosse Ansei-Erdbeben 1855 als Repräsentant des Genres der “Katastrophendarstellungen” by Stephan Köhn; Das “Ehon Muro no Yashima” (1808): Edition und Analyse eines Kamigatayomihon by Ekkehard May, Martina Schönbein, Claudia Waltermann; Edo bunko: Die Edo Bibliothek by Ekkehard May, Martina Schönbein, John Schmitt-WeigandPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 59:3 (2004) 418–21Shinto: A Short History by Inoue Nobutaka, Ito Satoshi, Endo Jun, Mori Mizue, Mark Teeuwen, John BreenEdmund T. Gilday
- MN 59:3 (2004) 421–24Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan by Andrew M. WatskyGregory Levine
- MN 59:3 (2004) 425–27Die Inszenierung der kulturellen Identität in Japan: Das Beispiel der Olympischen Spiele Tōkyō 1964 by Christian TagsoldAndreas Niehaus
- MN 59:3 (2004) 427–29Schreiben und Erinnern: Über Selbstzeugnisse japanischer Kriegsteilnehmer by Petra BuchholzFranziska Seraphim
- MN 59:3 (2004) 430Comment: The Iwakura Embassy in RussiaPeter F. Kornicki
MN 59:2 (2004) 153–77Out of the Mouths of Nurses: “The Tale of Sagoromo” and Midranks RomanceCharo B. D'Etcheverry- MN 59:2 (2004) 179–222The Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival ScreenReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 59:2 (2004) 223–44Medieval Experience, Modern Visions: Women in BuddhismRajyashree Pandey
- MN 59:2 (2004) 245–55Confucian Idealism and “The Tale of Genji”Naoaki Hiraishi
- MN 59:2 (2004) 257–59The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 by S. C. M. PaineRolf-Harald Wippich
- MN 59:2 (2004) 260–62Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality by Vera MackieBarbara Sato
- MN 59:2 (2004) 263–65Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy by Takemae Eiji, Robert Ricketts, Sebastian SwannHarald Fuess
- MN 59:2 (2004) 266–67Tsumi: Offence and Retribution in Early Japan by Yoko WilliamsGary L. Ebersole
- MN 59:2 (2004) 268–70Japans Neue Spiritualität by Lisette GebhardtCharles De Wolf
- MN 59:2 (2004) 271–75Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context by Robert H. Sharf, Elizabeth Horton SharfDonald F. McCallum
- MN 59:2 (2004) 275–77Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field by Joshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, Maribeth GraybillAllen Hockley
- MN 59:2 (2004) 278–80The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan by James CahillHiromitsu Kobayashi
- MN 59:2 (2004) 280–83Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain by Ellen SchattschneiderBirgit Staemmler
MN 59:1 (2004) 1–34Visions of the Dead: Kano Tan’yū’s Paintings of Tokugawa Iemitsu’s DreamsKaren M. Gerhart- MN 59:1 (2004) 35–82Living Icons: “Reizō” Myths of the Saikoku Kannon PilgrimageMark MacWilliams
- MN 59:1 (2004) 83–119An Extraordinary Odyssey: The Iwakura Embassy TranslatedF. G. Notehelfer, Igor R. Saveliev and W. F. Vande Walle
- MN 59:1 (2004) 121–26Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth Century Japan by Ann Waswo, Nishida YoshiakiNeil L. Waters
- MN 59:1 (2004) 126–29Nation and Nationalism in Japan by Sandra WilsonKurt Werner Radtke
- MN 59:1 (2004) 129–31The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan by Barbara SatoDavid R. Ambaras
- MN 59:1 (2004) 131–34Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953 by Haruo IguchiYoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
- MN 59:1 (2004) 134–37War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920–1960 by Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, H. Eleanor KerkhamJames Dorsey
- MN 59:1 (2004) 138–40Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh by Steven T. BrownNoel John Pinnington
- MN 59:1 (2004) 140–43Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, Practice by Morgan PitelkaChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 59:1 (2004) 143–45Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda, G. G. RowleySimon Partner
- MN 59:1 (2004) 145–48The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure by David LehenyWolfram Manzenreiter
- MN 59:1 (2004) 148–51Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan by Roger Goodman; Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? by Roger Goodman, David PhillipsSusanne Kreitz-Sandberg