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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 54, Number 1 (1999)- MN 54:1 (1999) 1–39Japan’s Foreign Relations 600 to 1200 A.D.: A Translation from Zenrin KokuhōkiCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 54:1 (1999) 41–73Cio-Cio-San and Sadayakko: Japanese Music-Theater in Madama ButterflyArthur Groos
- MN 54:1 (1999) 75–10Mirrors on Ancient Yamato: The Kurozuka Kofun Discovery and the Question of YamataiWalter Edwards
- MN 54:1 (1999) 111–21State Shinto: An “Independent Religion”?Mark Teeuwen
- MN 54:1 (1999) 123–26Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan by William Wayne FarrisGina L. Barnes
- MN 54:1 (1999) 126–27French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan 1854–95 by Richard SimsMark D. Ericson
- MN 54:1 (1999) 128–30Lorenz von Steins Arbeiten für Japan: Österreichisch-Japanische Rechtsbeziehungen II by Kazuhiro TakiiCarl Steenstrup
- MN 54:1 (1999) 130–32Japan, Race, and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 by Naoko ShimazuSharon A. Minichiello
- MN 54:1 (1999) 133–35Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan by Stephen VlastosAnn Waswo
- MN 54:1 (1999) 135–37More Than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan by Janice MatsumuraSandra Wilson
- MN 54:1 (1999) 138–40Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries by Michiko Y. AokiAnn Wehmeyer
- MN 54:1 (1999) 140–42Formless in Form: Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose by Linda H. ChanceThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 54:1 (1999) 143–46Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō by Haruo ShiraneAdam L. Kern
- MN 54:1 (1999) 146–48Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections by Ann YonemuraChie Ishibashi
- MN 54:1 (1999) 149–50La Japonésie: Géopolitique et géographie historique de la surinsularité au Japon by Philippe PelletierAlexander M. Kabanoff
- MN 54:1 (1999) 151–54Japan: Nature, Artifice, and Japanese Culture by Augustin Berque, Ross Schwartz; Japan: Cities and Social Bonds by Augustin Berque, Christopher TurnerRichard A. Gardner
- MN 54:1 (1999) 154–57Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women by Mariko Asano TamanoiKerry Smith
- MN 54:1 (1999) 157–59On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass by Carolyn S. StevensGlenda S. Roberts
- MN 54:1 (1999) 160–62The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen TurimAkira Mizuta Lippit
- MN 54:1 (1999) 162–65Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery by G. Cameron Hurst IIIThomas Conlan
- MN 54:1 (1999) 166Errata