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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 55, Number 2 (2000)- MN 55:2 (2000) 163–98Who Can’t Read and Write? Illiteracy in Meiji JapanRichard Rubinger
- MN 55:2 (2000) 199–224The Pleasure Quarters of Edo and Nanjing as Metaphor: The Records of Yu Huai and Narushima RyūhokuEmanuel Pastreich
- MN 55:2 (2000) 225–56Song as Cultural History: Reading Wakan Rōeishū (Part 1: Texts)Ivo Smits
- MN 55:2 (2000) 257–69Shunga: Function, Context, MethodologyAllen Hockley
- MN 55:2 (2000) 271–81Performing TheoryDennis Washburn
- MN 55:2 (2000) 283–85Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands by Mark J. HudsonBruce L. Batten
- MN 55:2 (2000) 285–88Heian Japan. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Japan by Donald H. Shively, William H. McCulloughWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 55:2 (2000) 288–91Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan by Selçuk EsenbelPatricia Sippel
- MN 55:2 (2000) 291–93War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 by Frederick R. DickinsonJames L. Huffman
- MN 55:2 (2000) 293–96Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kathleen S. UnoDavid R. Ambaras
- MN 55:2 (2000) 296–98Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women by Phyllis BirnbaumRichmod Bollinger
- MN 55:2 (2000) 298–300Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata by Roy StarrsGiorgio Amitrano
- MN 55:2 (2000) 300–302The Legend of Gold and Other Stories by Ishikawa Jun, William J. TylerAngela Yiu
- MN 55:2 (2000) 302–305Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya by Ann SherifMaryellen Toman Mori
- MN 55:2 (2000) 305–307Ōe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Stephen Snyder, Philip GabrielSeiji M. Lippit
- MN 55:2 (2000) 307–10Buddhistische Zeremoniale [Kōshiki] und ihre Bedeutung für die Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters by Niels GülbergHartmut O. Rotermund
- MN 55:2 (2000) 310–12The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship by Karen A. SmyersKlaus Antoni
- MN 55:2 (2000) 312–15The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan by Gerald GroemerIngrid Fritsch
- MN 55:2 (2000) 315–17Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland by Aviad E. RazAnne Allison
- MN 55:2 (2000) 317–19Wörterbücher und Glossare. Eine teilannotierte Bibliographie japanisch-deutscher und deutsch-japanischer Nachschlagewerke. Wa-Doku Doku-Wa jisho, yōgoshū kaidai by Jürgen Stalph, Harald SuppanschitschHartmut Walravens
- MN 55:2 (2000) 321–23CorrespondenceJohn Allen Tucker