Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 77:1 (2022) 130–35Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context by Akihiro Odanaka and Masami IwaiSatoko Shimazaki- MN 77:1 (2022) 135–40Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras by Nobuko ToyosawaRobert Goree
- MN 77:1 (2022) 140–45Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s River, 1600–1920 by Roderick I. WilsonPhilip C. Brown
- MN 77:1 (2022) 145–49The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media by Nathan ShockeySeth Jacobowitz
- MN 77:1 (2022) 149–55A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan by Timothy M. YangHiromi Mizuno
- MN 77:1 (2022) 155–61Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism by Tatiana LinkhoevaYukiko Koshiro
- MN 77:1 (2022) 161–65Interpreters and War Crimes by Kayoko TakedaSandra Wilson
- MN 77:1 (2022) 165–70Ghost in the Well: The Hidden History of Horror Films in Japan by Michael CrandolLindsay Nelson
- MN 77:1 (2022) 170–74Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration by Mark MullinsKota Saito
- MN 77:1 (2022) 175–77Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946–2016, A History by Garren MulloyGiulio Pugliese
- MN 77:1 (2022) 178–82Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left by Chelsea Szendi SchiederPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 77:1 (2022) 182–87Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Early Novels by Rebecca SuterMatthew C. Strecher
- MN 77:1 (2022) 187–91Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabriele KochFabio Gygi
- MN 77:1 (2022) 191–97Reframing Disability in Manga by Yoshiko OkuyamaMark Bookman
- MN 77:1 (2022) 197–201Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan by Allison AlexyHarald Fuess
- MN 77:1 (2022) 201–205Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan by Jan BardsleySusan Napier
MN 76:2 (2021) 249–90Nihongi Banquet Poetry: Rewriting Japanese Myth in VerseMatthieu Felt- MN 76:2 (2021) 291–328Edo Castle as a Consumer: Procuring Fish for the Shogun’s TableYūjirō Ōguchi
- MN 76:2 (2021) 329–61The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan’s Modern BuddhismStephan Kigensan Licha
- MN 76:2 (2021) 363–66Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago: Exploring the Japanese Skyscape by Akira GotoJeffrey Kotyk
- MN 76:2 (2021) 367–72Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan’s Medieval “Mirror” Genre by Erin L. BrightwellDavid Spafford
- MN 76:2 (2021) 372–75The Namban Trade: Merchants and Missionaries in 16th and 17th Century Japan by Mihoko OkaAdam Clulow
- MN 76:2 (2021) 375–78Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan by Laura MorettiR. Keller Kimbrough
- MN 76:2 (2021) 378–82“Kanbunmyaku”: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature by Mareshi SaitōPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 76:2 (2021) 382–85From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, “Kokugaku,” and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Gideon FujiwaraMark Teeuwen
- MN 76:2 (2021) 385–90The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation ed. Robert Hellyer and Harald FuessDaniel Botsman
- MN 76:2 (2021) 390–95Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868–1937 by Peer VriesMark Metzler
- MN 76:2 (2021) 395–400Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan by Miya Elise Mizuta LippitNoriko Murai
- MN 76:2 (2021) 400–404Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups by Robert HellyerWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 76:2 (2021) 404–11Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan by Hiroko MatsudaKirsten L. Ziomek
- MN 76:2 (2021) 411–14Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah KovnerMahon Murphy
- MN 76:2 (2021) 414–17Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 by Benjamin UchiyamaJanis Mimura
- MN 76:2 (2021) 417–19Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain’s War with Japan by Peter KornickiJoshua A. Fogel
- MN 76:2 (2021) 419–22Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan by Jolyon Baraka ThomasTrent Maxey
- MN 76:2 (2021) 423–30Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding ed. Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov; In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia ed. Barak Kushner and Andrew LevidisPhilip Seaton
- MN 76:2 (2021) 430–37The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday by Woojeong JooMichael Raine
- MN 76:2 (2021) 437–39The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan by Mayumi ItohJay Alabaster
- MN 76:2 (2021) 440–43Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific by Saori N. KatadaKristi Govella
- MN 76:2 (2021) 444–45Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society by Gracia Liu-FarrerMichael Strausz
MN 76:1 (2021) 1–68The Tragedy of Quabacondono: An Elizabethan Account of the Last Days of Toyotomi HidetsugiLiam Matthew Brockey and Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas- MN 76:1 (2021) 69–115Nihon Gaishi Goes Global: A Translation History of a Nineteenth-Century BlockbusterRobert Tuck
- MN 76:1 (2021) 117–62A Pernicious Gang: Ōshio Chūsai and the Prosecution of Heretics in Late Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
- MN 76:1 (2021) 163–67Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World by Thomas R. H. HavensJon L. Pitt
- MN 76:1 (2021) 167–71Akutō and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan by Morten OxenboellEthan Segal
- MN 76:1 (2021) 172–74The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy by Michael LaverMartha Chaiklin
- MN 76:1 (2021) 175–80What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan ed. Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia YonemotoAnnick Horiuchi
- MN 76:1 (2021) 180–85Japan Supernatural: Ghosts, Goblins and Monsters, 1700 to Now ed. Melanie EastburnAdam L. Kern
- MN 76:1 (2021) 185–89Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy StanleyRebecca Corbett