Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 72:1 (2017) 128–33The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature: Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki, and Kanai Mieko by Atsuko SakakiMark Silver- MN 72:1 (2017) 134–38Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice by Barak KushnerTorsten Weber
- MN 72:1 (2017) 138–41Drahtseilakte: Der junge Kenzaburō Ōe by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Christoph HeldAsa-Bettina Wuthenow
- MN 72:1 (2017) 142–45The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations by Robert HoppensKarl Gustafsson
- MN 72:1 (2017) 146–52The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz AraiEdward Vickers
MN 71:2 (2016) 263–93Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō) Heather Blair- MN 71:2 (2016) 295–369A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 2) : A Solace in Old AgeSteven D. Carter
- MN 71:2 (2016) 371–77Constructing the Dharma King: The Hōryūji Shaka Triad and the Birth of the Prince Shōtoku Cult by Akiko WalleyChari Pradel
- MN 71:2 (2016) 377–81Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons by Wiebke DeneckeGunilla Lindberg-Wada
- MN 71:2 (2016) 381–85The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan by Asuka SangoMikael Bauer
- MN 71:2 (2016) 385–90Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan by Heather BlairHalle O'Neal
- MN 71:2 (2016) 390–93Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors by Doris G. BargenTerry Kawashima
- MN 71:2 (2016) 394–99Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital by Matthew StavrosEllen Van Goethem
- MN 71:2 (2016) 400–403From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan by David QuinterPaul B. Watt
- MN 71:2 (2016) 403–405Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571–1644: Local Comparisons and Global Connections by Birgit Tremml-WernerGeorge Bryan Souza
- MN 71:2 (2016) 405–408Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan by Hans Martin KrämerHwansoo Kim
- MN 71:2 (2016) 409–11Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899 by Catherine L. PhippsPär Cassel
- MN 71:2 (2016) 411–17Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture by Seth JacobowitzAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 71:2 (2016) 418–21Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality by Michel MohrMicah L. Auerback
- MN 71:2 (2016) 421–25Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement by Robert Thomas TierneyStephen Filler
- MN 71:2 (2016) 426–29Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan by Miri NakamuraKirsten Cather
- MN 71:2 (2016) 430–33Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan by John D. SzostakChelsea Foxwell
- MN 71:2 (2016) 434–38Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Camera and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kerry RossMaki Fukuoka
- MN 71:2 (2016) 438–42Sacred Space in the Modern City: The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912–1958 by Yoshiko ImaizumiAike P. Rots
- MN 71:2 (2016) 443–50Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s by Serk-Bae SuhSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 71:2 (2016) 450–54Propaganda Performed: Kamishibai in Japan’s Fifteen-Year War by Sharalyn OrbaughMaki Kaneko
- MN 71:2 (2016) 455–64The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann; Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War by Lee K. Pennington; Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi YoshiakiAndrew Gordon
- MN 71:2 (2016) 464–68The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964 by Jessamyn R. AbelMichael A. Schneider
- MN 71:2 (2016) 469–72The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan by Akiko Hashimoto; Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar by Akiko TakenakaFranziska Seraphim
- MN 71:2 (2016) 473–77Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon by Christine M. E. GuthNoriko Murai
- MN 71:2 (2016) 477–83From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West by Mayako Murai; Japanese Animal-Wife Tales: Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition by Fumihiko KobayashiMelek Ortabasi
- MN 71:2 (2016) 483–87Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture by Jonathan M. ReynoldsYoshiaki Kai
- MN 71:2 (2016) 487–91Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture by Thomas R. H. HavensStefan Hübner
- MN 71:2 (2016) 491–94Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005 by Griseldis KirschRobert Hoppens
MN 71:1 (2016) 1–42Readings from the Bamboo Grove: A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 1)Steven D. Carter- MN 71:1 (2016) 29–42A Solace in Old Age (Part 1)Sōgi, Translated by Steven D. Carter
- MN 71:1 (2016) 43–82Sedge-Hat Madness: A Translation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Onatsu Seijūrō Gojūnenki Uta NenbutsuMichael C. Brownstein
- MN 71:1 (2016) 55–82Onatsu and Seijūrō: Prayers on the Fiftieth AnniversaryMonzaemon Chikamatsu, Translated by Michael C. Brownstein
- MN 71:1 (2016) 83–117Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885Steven J. Ericson
- MN 71:1 (2016) 119–22Ancient Ryukyu: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities by Richard PearsonDavid J. Welch
- MN 71:1 (2016) 122–27Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult by Jonathan StockdaleElizabeth Oyler
- MN 71:1 (2016) 127–34Shinkokinshū: New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern trans. Laurel Rasplica RoddRoselee Bundy
- MN 71:1 (2016) 134–40Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative by Alison McQueen TokitaMargaret H. Childs
- MN 71:1 (2016) 140–43From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300–1735 by Rotem KownerAdam Clulow
- MN 71:1 (2016) 143–48The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan by Federico MarconYulia Frumer
- MN 71:1 (2016) 148–52Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia by Jiang WuSteven Heine
- MN 71:1 (2016) 152–58A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah ClementsFederico Marcon
- MN 71:1 (2016) 158–61Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan by Luke S. RobertsMark Ravina