Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 53, Number 3 (1998)- MN 53:3 (1998) 303–34Trade, Money, and Merchants in Nara JapanWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 53:3 (1998) 335–58Tokugawa Translations of Dutch Legal TextsF. B. Verwayen
- MN 53:3 (1998) 359–73From Grand Narrative to YakisobaF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 53:3 (1998) 375–81Medieval and Early Modern Shinto ReconsideredYūichirō Tajiri
- MN 53:3 (1998) 383–86Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry by Edward KamensJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 53:3 (1998) 386–88The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan by Sonja ArntzenLynne K. Miyake
- MN 53:3 (1998) 388–92Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory Limited; Heike Monogatari (The Tale of Heike) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory LimitedAileen Gatten
- MN 53:3 (1998) 392–95Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan by Dennis Washburn, Alan TansmanJoel Cohn
- MN 53:3 (1998) 395–98The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century by Jeffrey P. MassSuzanne Gay
- MN 53:3 (1998) 398–400Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era by Motoyama Yukihiko, J. S. A. Elisonas, Richard RubingerNeil L. Waters
- MN 53:3 (1998) 400–402Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism 1900–1937 by Vera MackieBarbara Molony
- MN 53:3 (1998) 402–404Society and State in Interwar Japan by Elise K. TiptonW. Miles Fletcher III
- MN 53:3 (1998) 405–409The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development by James Foard, Michael Solomon, Richard K. Payne; The Collected Works of Shinran by Dennis Hirota, Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, Ryushin Uryuzu; Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture. by Esben Andreasen; Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism. by Galen AmstutzRichard A. Gardner
- MN 53:3 (1998) 409–11The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan by Kendall H. BrownJoseph D. Parker
- MN 53:3 (1998) 411–15The Nasser D. Khalili Collection: Decorative Arts of Meiji Japan by Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley; Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan; Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin by Joe EarleHugh Wylie
- MN 53:3 (1998) 416–18An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio SugimotoDavid H. Slater
- MN 53:3 (1998) 419–20Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity by Michael WeinerJohn Lie
- MN 53:3 (1998) 421–22The Japanese Family System in Transition: A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan by Emiko OchiaiRalph Lützeler
- MN 53:3 (1998) 423–25Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides by Ofra Goldstein-GidoniTom Gill