Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 74:1 (2019) 106–109Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893 by Yasuhiro MakimuraHarald Fuess- MN 74:1 (2019) 101–106Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin’s “Nansō Satomi hakkenden” by Glynne WalleyYoshitaka Yamamoto
- MN 74:1 (2019) 97–101Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. ArchWilliam M. Tsutsui
- MN 74:1 (2019) 93–97Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia FrumerStefan Tanaka
- MN 74:1 (2019) 90–93Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku by David J. GundryJ. Scott Miller
- MN 74:1 (2019) 85–90Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan ed. Karen M. GerhartYui Suzuki
- MN 74:1 (2019) 59–84The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese LiteratureEmi Foulk Bushelle
- MN 74:1 (2019) 33–57War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike MonogatariVyjayanthi R. Selinger
- MN 74:1 (2019) 1–32Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early JapanJoshua Frydman
MN 73:2 (2018) 185–86Eightieth Anniversary Message- MN 73:2 (2018) 187–212Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic CoolingKeisuke Itō and Paula R. Curtis
- MN 73:2 (2018) 213–44Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification CampaignMichael Burtscher and Mika Odaira
- MN 73:2 (2018) 245–50Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre; A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John BreenYijiang Zhong
- MN 73:2 (2018) 250–55Fabricating the “Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara” and Prince Shōtoku’sAfterlives by Chari PradelHillary Pedersen
- MN 73:2 (2018) 255–58Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. FowlerKaren M. Gerhart
- MN 73:2 (2018) 258–60Recasting the Past: An Early Modern “Tales of Ise” for Children by Laura MorettiPeter MacMillan
- MN 73:2 (2018) 260–64Daimyo Gardens by Shirahata Yōzaburō, trans. Imoto Chikako, Lynne E. RiggsChristian Tagsold
- MN 73:2 (2018) 265–67Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-CenturyJapan by D. Colin JaundrillMark Ravina
- MN 73:2 (2018) 267–69Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan by Danny OrbachRichard J. Smethurst
- MN 73:2 (2018) 270–74Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945 by Paul D. BarclayRobert Eskildsen
- MN 73:2 (2018) 274–80The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to thePacific War by S. C. M. PaineFrederick R. Dickinson
- MN 73:2 (2018) 280–83Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire ed. David G. Wittner, Philip C. BrownAlexander Bay
- MN 73:2 (2018) 283–92Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan by W. Puck BrecherF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 73:2 (2018) 292–95It’s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea by Theodore Jun YooHoi-Eun Kim
- MN 73:2 (2018) 296–301Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di MarcoAmy Borovoy
- MN 73:2 (2018) 302–304The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan by Tatsuichi Horikiri, ed. and trans. Rieko WagonerMartha Chaiklin
- MN 73:2 (2018) 304–307Picture Bride Stories by Barbara F. KawakamiMariko Iijima
- MN 73:2 (2018) 307–14Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love,and Labor by Ayako KanoUlrike Wöhr
- MN 73:2 (2018) 314–19Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan HopsonAnthony Rausch
- MN 73:2 (2018) 320–24The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia by Hiro SaitoPhilip Seaton
MN 73:1 (2018) 1–26Measuring Feeling as Theory of Literature: Romanticism and the Performance of Genre in Natsume Sōseki’s Kusamakura and Critical WritingsDaniel Poch- MN 73:1 (2018) 27–85The Aestheticization of Korean Suffering in the Colonial Period: A Translation of Yanagi Sōetsu’s Chōsen no BijutsuPenny Bailey
- MN 73:1 (2018) 63–85Korean ArtSōetsu Yanagi, Translated by Penny Bailey
- MN 73:1 (2018) 87–91Mountain Mandalas: Shugendō in Kyushu by Allan G. GrapardCaleb Carter
- MN 73:1 (2018) 92–95Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice by Brian SteiningerRobert Borgen
- MN 73:1 (2018) 95–99Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan by Terry KawashimaJoseph T. Sorensen
- MN 73:1 (2018) 100–104Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet by Paul S. AtkinsRobert N. Huey
- MN 73:1 (2018) 104–107Ōsaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power by Anton SchweizerMorgan Pitelka
- MN 73:1 (2018) 107–10A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke GartlanKerry Ross
- MN 73:1 (2018) 111–14Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonaldAnnika A. Culver
- MN 73:1 (2018) 115–19Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyM. G. Sheftall
- MN 73:1 (2018) 119–26The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan by Gavin WalkerViren Murthy
- MN 73:1 (2018) 126–31Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao by Michael Lucken, trans. Francesca SimkinMiriam Wattles
- MN 73:1 (2018) 131–33War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945–1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil ed. Kerstin von LingenSarah Kovner
- MN 73:1 (2018) 134–40The Comfort Women: Historical, Political, Legal, and Moral Perspectives by Kumagai Naoko, trans. David NobleBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 73:1 (2018) 140–43The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan by Laura NeitzelAnn Waswo
- MN 73:1 (2018) 143–48Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement by Simon AvenellTimothy S. George
- MN 73:1 (2018) 148–53Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests by Aike P. RotsThierry Guthmann