Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 58, Number 2 (2003)- MN 58:2 (2003) 149–70The Akō Incident, 1701–1703Masahide Bitō and Henry D. Smith II
- MN 58:2 (2003) 171–92The Scar: A Story from SeitōReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 58:2 (2003) 193–222Coming to Terms with the Alien: Translations of “Genji Monogatari”Machiko Midorikawa
- MN 58:2 (2003) 223–58Comfort Women: Beyond Litigious FeminismBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 58:2 (2003) 259–62Pèlerinage et société dans le Japon des Tokugawa: Le pèlerinage de Shikoku entre 1598 et 1868 by Nathalie KouaméFabio Rambelli
- MN 58:2 (2003) 262–64The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931–33 by Sandra WilsonMichael Lewis
- MN 58:2 (2003) 264–66Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 58:2 (2003) 267–68Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) by Frédéric Girard, Annick Horiuchi, Mieko MacéKarine Marandjian
- MN 58:2 (2003) 269–70Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School by James W. HeisigTadashi Karube
- MN 58:2 (2003) 270–73Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays by Etsuko TerasakiRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:2 (2003) 273–76Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600–1900 by Haruo ShiraneSonja Arntzen
- MN 58:2 (2003) 276–78Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll by Lawrence RogersAngela Yiu
- MN 58:2 (2003) 278–80Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tōsui by Peter Haskel; Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu’s Talks on Linji by Christopher Ives, Tokiwa GishinSteven Heine
- MN 58:2 (2003) 281–83Treatise on Epistolary Style: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters by Jeroen Pieter LamersMichael Cooper
- MN 58:2 (2003) 284–86Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art by Wybe KuitertWalter Edwards
- MN 58:2 (2003) 286–89Identity and Resistance in Okinawa by Matthew AllenHidekazu Sensui
- MN 58:2 (2003) 289–91Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval by Merry Isaacs WhiteAmy Borovoy