Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 58:4 (2003) 467–93The Story of the Loyal Samurai of AkōMotoori Norinaga, Translated by Federico Marcon- MN 58:4 (2003) 439–93A Chūshingura Palimpsest: Young Motoori Norinaga Hears the Story of the Akō Rōnin from a Buddhist PriestFederico Marcon and Henry D. Smith II
- MN 58:4 (2003) 495–529Childhood Reimagined: The Memoirs of Ōgai’s ChildrenTomoko Aoyama
- MN 58:4 (2003) 531–533In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan by Thomas D. ConlanReinhard Zöllner
- MN 58:4 (2003) 534–537Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603–1868 by Marcia YonemotoLuke S. Roberts
- MN 58:4 (2003) 537–539The Origin and Development of Japanese-Style Organization by Kasaya KazuhikoMark Ravina
- MN 58:4 (2003) 539–541Konfliktaustragung in autoritären Herrschaftssystemen: Eine historische Fallstudie zur frühsozialistischen Bewegung im Japan der Meiji-Zeit by Maik Hendrik SprotteSven Saaler
- MN 58:4 (2003) 542–544Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism by Curtis Anderson GayleSebastian Conrad
- MN 58:4 (2003) 544–547Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyō by William R. LaFleurRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:4 (2003) 547–550The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father by Rebecca L. Copeland, Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenJanet A. Walker
- MN 58:4 (2003) 550–552Topographies of Japanese Modernism by Seiji M. LippitSusan Napier
- MN 58:4 (2003) 553–556Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature by David M. RosenfeldSeiji M. Lippit
- MN 58:4 (2003) 556–558Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period by W. F. Vande Walle, Kazuhiko KasayaMichael R. Auslin
- MN 58:4 (2003) 558–561Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kantō Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers by Helen HardacreNathalie Kouamé
- MN 58:4 (2003) 561–563Zen War Stories by Brian Daizen VictoriaRobert Kisala
- MN 58:4 (2003) 563–566The History of Japanese Photography by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryūichi, Takeba Joe, Iizawa Kōtarō, Kinoshita NaoyukiJulia Adeney Thomas
- MN 58:4 (2003) 566–569An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context by Umesao Tadao, Beth Cary, Harumi BefuBrett L. Walker
- MN 58:4 (2003) 569–571CorrespondenceMichael Lewis and Sandra Wilson
MN 58:3 (2003) 293–315Confucian Perspectives on the Akō Revenge: Law and Moral AgencyJames McMullen- MN 58:3 (2003) 317–46The Demon-Quelling Style in Medieval Japanese Poetic and Dramatic TheoryPaul S. Atkins
- MN 58:3 (2003) 347–96Oil Painting in Postsurrender Japan: Reconstructing Subjectivity through Deformation of the BodyBert Winther-Tamaki
- MN 58:3 (2003) 397–405The Orientation of the Body: Between Performance and NatureAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 58:3 (2003) 407–409To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions by Bruce L. BattenAnne Walthall
- MN 58:3 (2003) 410–11Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience and Renewal by Lee ButlerG. Cameron Hurst
- MN 58:3 (2003) 412–14Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan by Olaf G. LidinThomas Conlan
- MN 58:3 (2003) 414–16A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon; Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation: 1868–2000 by Richard SimsJames L. Huffman
- MN 58:3 (2003) 417–19Justice in Japan: The Notorious Teijin Scandal by Richard H. MitchellJames C. Baxter
- MN 58:3 (2003) 419–22We the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution by Dale M. HellegersJ. Victor Koschmann
- MN 58:3 (2003) 422–24Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan by Susan Blakeley KleinAileen Gatten
- MN 58:3 (2003) 424–27Kawabata, le clair-obscur by Cécile SakaiGiorgio Amitrano
- MN 58:3 (2003) 427–30The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan by Shiro Okamoto, Samuel L. LeiterJanet E. Goff
- MN 58:3 (2003) 430–32Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting by Brenda G. Jordan, Victoria WestonQuitman E. Phillips
- MN 58:3 (2003) 433–35Master Potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842–1916) and His Workshop by Clare PollardRichard L. Wilson
- MN 58:3 (2003) 435–37A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi, Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi, Hiroyuki TakasakiBrett L. Walker
MN 58:2 (2003) 149–70The Akō Incident, 1701–1703Masahide Bitō, Translated by Henry D. Smith II- MN 58:2 (2003) 181–92The ScarSatō Kinko, Translated by Reiko Abe Auestad
- MN 58:2 (2003) 171–92The Scar: A Story from SeitōReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 58:2 (2003) 193–222Coming to Terms with the Alien: Translations of “Genji Monogatari”Machiko Midorikawa
- MN 58:2 (2003) 223–58Comfort Women: Beyond Litigious FeminismBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 58:2 (2003) 259–62Pèlerinage et société dans le Japon des Tokugawa: Le pèlerinage de Shikoku entre 1598 et 1868 by Nathalie KouaméFabio Rambelli
- MN 58:2 (2003) 262–64The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931–33 by Sandra WilsonMichael Lewis
- MN 58:2 (2003) 264–66Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 58:2 (2003) 267–68Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) by Frédéric Girard, Annick Horiuchi, Mieko MacéKarine Marandjian
- MN 58:2 (2003) 269–70Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School by James W. HeisigTadashi Karube
- MN 58:2 (2003) 270–73Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays by Etsuko TerasakiRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:2 (2003) 273–76Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600–1900 by Haruo ShiraneSonja Arntzen
- MN 58:2 (2003) 276–78Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll by Lawrence RogersAngela Yiu
- MN 58:2 (2003) 278–80Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tōsui by Peter Haskel; Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu’s Talks on Linji by Christopher Ives, Tokiwa GishinSteven Heine