Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 25, Number 1/2 (1970)- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 13–27Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and I-NovelistsKinya Tsuruta
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 29–42A Structural Analysis of Man’yōshū Poems 1520–2, 892–3, and 800–1Harold S. Chu
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 43–105The Dream Pillow in Edo Fiction 1772–81James T. Araki
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 107–35Caste’ In Japanese Social Stratification: A Theory and a CaseJohn B. Cornell
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 137–54Ono Azusa and the Political Change of 1881Sandra T. W. Davis
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 155–95Japan’s Experiment in KoreaDavid Brudnoy
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 217–19The Japanese Communist Party, 1922–1945 by George M. Beckmann, Okubo GenjiHenry D. Smith II
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 220–22Japan: Culture, Education, and Change in Two Communities by Theodore BrameldPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 222–24Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki, 1883–1937 by George M. WilsonBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 224–25How the Conservatives Rule Japan (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Nathaniel B. ThayerHans H. Baerwald
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 225–28A History of Japanese Astronomy by Shigeru NakayamaJames R. Bartholomew
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 228–30Modern Japan’s Foreign Policy by Morinosuke KajimaWilliam R. Bryant
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 230–34Socialist Parties in Postwar Japan by Allan B. Cole, George O. Totten, Cecil H. UyeharaPaul F. Langer
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 234–35Arts of China: Neolithic Cultures to the T’ang Dynasty, Recent Discoveries by Akiyama TerukazuMilan Mihal
- MN 25:1/2 (1970) 236–37Books Received