Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 53, Number 2 (1998)- MN 53:2 (1998) 153–95Fact, Fiction, and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in Tōnomine Shōshō MonogatariAileen Gatten
- MN 53:2 (1998) 197–223Abandoned Fields: Negotiating Taxes in the Bakufu DomainPatricia Sippel
- MN 53:2 (1998) 225–35Dispossessed Melodies: Recordings of the Kawakami Theater TroupeJ. Scott Miller
- MN 53:2 (1998) 237–55Studies of Japan, Area Studies, and the Challenges of Social TheoryIan Reader
- MN 53:2 (1998) 257–63The Context of Everyday ThingsOsamu Saitō
- MN 53:2 (1998) 265–67The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower by Thomas Hare, Robert Borgen, Sharalyn OrbaughRobert N. Huey
- MN 53:2 (1998) 268–70Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image by Joshua S. MostowJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 53:2 (1998) 271–73Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature by Joan E. EricsonReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 53:2 (1998) 273–76The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan MacfarlaneKären Wigen
- MN 53:2 (1998) 276–80Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gary P. LeuppGregory M. Pflugfelder
- MN 53:2 (1998) 280–83Die Politik der Sexualwissenschaft: Zur Produktion und Popularisierung sexologischen Wissens in Japan 1908–1941 by Sabine FrühstückUlrike Wöhr
- MN 53:2 (1998) 284–85Le Vase de béryl: Études sur le Japon et la Chine en hommage à Bernard Frank by Jacqueline Pigeot, Hartmut O. RotermundJacques Bésineau
- MN 53:2 (1998) 285–88Nō and Kyōgen in the Contemporary World by James R. BrandonJanet E. Goff
- MN 53:2 (1998) 288–90Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyō Tradition by Jane Marie LawVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 53:2 (1998) 290–92Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics by Brian MoeranJohn Clammer
- MN 53:2 (1998) 292–94De la création des jardins: Traduction du Sakutei-ki by Michel Vieillard-BaronWybe Kuitert
- MN 53:2 (1998) 295–96The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan during the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952 by Mark SandlerTom Havens
- MN 53:2 (1998) 296–98Ozu’s Tokyo Story by David DesserCarole Cavanaugh
- MN 53:2 (1998) 298–300From My Grandmother’s Bedside by Norma FieldJ. Thomas Rimer