Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 56, Number 2 (2001)- MN 56:2 (2001) 139–71Yamaji Aizan’s Traces of the Development of Human Rights in Japanese HistoryGraham Squires
- MN 56:2 (2001) 151–71Traces of the Development of Human Rights in Japanese HistoryYamaji Aizan, Translated by Graham Squires
- MN 56:2 (2001) 173–95Solitary Thoughts: A Translation of Tadano Makuzu’s Hitori Kangae (Part 2)Tadano Makuzu, Translated by Janet R. Goodwin, Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Elizabeth A. Leicester, Yuki Terazawa and Anne Walthall
- MN 56:2 (2001) 197–237Rescuing the Nation from History: The State of the State in Early Modern JapanRonald P. Toby
- MN 56:2 (2001) 239–54The Anatomy of an Age: Interpretations of Modern History in Postwar Germany and JapanKlaus Vollmer
- MN 56:2 (2001) 255–57The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. JansenMichael Lewis
- MN 56:2 (2001) 257–60The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East by Ayako Hotta-ListerEllen P. Conant
- MN 56:2 (2001) 261–63Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan by Gerald FigalAdam Kabat
- MN 56:2 (2001) 263–66Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895–1938 by Barbara J. BrooksC. W. Braddick
- MN 56:2 (2001) 266–69The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography by Joshua A. Fogel; Documents on the Rape of Nanking by Timothy BrookTokushi Kasahara
- MN 56:2 (2001) 270–72Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archeology of Sensation and Inscription by Thomas LaMarreRein Raud
- MN 56:2 (2001) 273–75Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū by Stephen SnyderAngela Yiu
- MN 56:2 (2001) 276–79Mishima Yukio: Esthétique classique, univers tragique: D’Apollon et Dionysos à Sade et Bataille by Annie CecchiStephen Snyder
- MN 56:2 (2001) 279–82Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami by John Breen, Mark TeeuwenFabio Rambelli
- MN 56:2 (2001) 282–84Prophets of Peace by Robert KisalaHelen Hardacre
- MN 56:2 (2001) 284–87Lives of Young Koreans in Japan by Yasunori Fukuoka, Tom GillOkpyo Moon
- MN 56:2 (2001) 287–89Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan by John Whittier TreatPaul Gordon Schalow
- MN 56:2 (2001) 290–92Catalogue of the Early Japanese Books in the Russian State Library by Peter F. KornickiKarine Marandjian
- MN 56:2 (2001) 292–94Word-Processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard by Nanette Gottlieb; Dennō kokubungaku: Intānetto de hirogaru koten no sekai by Kanji Bunken Jōhō Shori KenkyūkaiMichael G. Watson