Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 75:1 (2020) 161–65Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan’s National Pastime by Christopher T. KeaveneyWilliam W. Kelly- MN 75:1 (2020) 165–68Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community by Richard J. SamuelsDanny Orbach
- MN 75:1 (2020) 168–72Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire by David R. Ambaras; Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples by Kirsten L. ZiomekErik Esselstrom
- MN 75:1 (2020) 173–76Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. WardTomoko Seto
- MN 75:1 (2020) 176–79Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu NagaharaShunsuke Nozawa
- MN 75:1 (2020) 179–81Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 by Robert KrammBill Mihalopoulos
- MN 75:1 (2020) 182–84Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. SmithGiulio Pugliese
- MN 75:1 (2020) 185–91Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo by Nick KapurPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 75:1 (2020) 191–96Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan NapierMihaela Mihailova
- MN 75:1 (2020) 197–99Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. SmithMary Alice Haddad
- MN 75:1 (2020) 200–203Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles by Alexander BrownRobin O'Day
MN 74:2 (2019) 173–209How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei’s Man’yōshū JidaikōMalgorzata Karolina Citko- MN 74:2 (2019) 201–209Reflections on the Man’yōshū EraFujiwara-no-Shunzei, Translated by Malgorzata Karolina Citko and Kei Umeda
- MN 74:2 (2019) 211–48Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval JapanR. Keller Kimbrough
- MN 74:2 (2019) 249–53Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770 by Dorothy C. WongAkiko Walley
- MN 74:2 (2019) 253–56Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. PiggottPierre François Souyri
- MN 74:2 (2019) 257–61Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan by Caitilin J. GriffithsChristina Laffin
- MN 74:2 (2019) 261–64A Maritime History of East Asia ed. Masashi Haneda and Mihoko OkaAdam Clulow
- MN 74:2 (2019) 264–71The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves by Lúcio de SousaGeoffrey C. Gunn
- MN 74:2 (2019) 272–73Engaging the Other: ‘Japan’ and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. TobyKären Wigen
- MN 74:2 (2019) 273–78Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A. EhlersJames L. Huffman
- MN 74:2 (2019) 278–81Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan by James L. HuffmanTimothy D. Amos
- MN 74:2 (2019) 281–87Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist by John NathanJ. Keith Vincent
- MN 74:2 (2019) 288–93Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim YasarScott W. Aalgaard
- MN 74:2 (2019) 293–97A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) by Gala Maria FollacoRachael Hutchinson
- MN 74:2 (2019) 297–305Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary by Michael P. CroninAndrew Murakami-Smith
- MN 74:2 (2019) 305–307The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present ed. Tosh MinoharaPeter Mauch
- MN 74:2 (2019) 307–12The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book by Sari KawanaJonathan E. Abel
- MN 74:2 (2019) 312–15The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War by Asato IkedaMaki Kaneko
- MN 74:2 (2019) 316–19The Japanese and the War: From Expectation to Memory by Michael LuckenAaron William Moore
- MN 74:2 (2019) 319–22The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan by William W. KellyMichael Laver
- MN 74:2 (2019) 322–25Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence ed. by Jinhee ChoiDavid Desser
- MN 74:2 (2019) 325–29Religion in Japanese Daily Life by David C. LewisJohn W. Traphagan
- MN 74:2 (2019) 329–32Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Mieko NishidaSarah LeBaron von Baeyer
MN 74:1 (2019) 170–72Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture by Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae JangTom Havens- MN 74:1 (2019) 165–70Interpreting Anime by Christopher Bolton; The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media by Thomas LamarreDeborah Shamoon
- MN 74:1 (2019) 161–64Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan by Genaro Castro-VázquezAya Homei
- MN 74:1 (2019) 157–60The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive by Aurelia George MulganAlisa Gaunder
- MN 74:1 (2019) 150–57Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State’s Assault on Historical Truth ed. Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, and Onozawa AkaneJeff Kingston
- MN 74:1 (2019) 146–50Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan by Kent E. CalderFrances McCall Rosenbluth
- MN 74:1 (2019) 140–45Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy by Tanaka Akihiko, trans. Jean Connell HoffJames D. J. Brown
- MN 74:1 (2019) 136–40Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia by Miyagi Taizō, trans. Hanabusa MidoriTadashi Anno
- MN 74:1 (2019) 131–35Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 by Jennifer CoatesDiane Wei Lewis
- MN 74:1 (2019) 127–30Others in Japanese Agriculture: Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920–1950 by Yasuoka Ken’ichi, trans. Teresa CastelvetereTessa Morris-Suzuki
- MN 74:1 (2019) 122–27Embracing “Asia” in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933 by Torsten WeberChristopher W. A. Szpilman
- MN 74:1 (2019) 119–22The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon PartnerM. William Steele
- MN 74:1 (2019) 115–19To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark RavinaAlistair Swale
- MN 74:1 (2019) 109–15The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo by Yijiang ZhongBernhard Scheid