Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 58, Number 3 (2003)- MN 58:3 (2003) 293–315Confucian Perspectives on the Akō Revenge: Law and Moral AgencyJames McMullen
- MN 58:3 (2003) 317–46The Demon-Quelling Style in Medieval Japanese Poetic and Dramatic TheoryPaul S. Atkins
- MN 58:3 (2003) 347–96Oil Painting in Postsurrender Japan: Reconstructing Subjectivity through Deformation of the BodyBert Winther-Tamaki
- MN 58:3 (2003) 397–405The Orientation of the Body: Between Performance and NatureAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 58:3 (2003) 407–409To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions by Bruce L. BattenAnne Walthall
- MN 58:3 (2003) 410–11Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience and Renewal by Lee ButlerG. Cameron Hurst
- MN 58:3 (2003) 412–14Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan by Olaf G. LidinThomas Conlan
- MN 58:3 (2003) 414–16A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon; Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation: 1868–2000 by Richard SimsJames L. Huffman
- MN 58:3 (2003) 417–19Justice in Japan: The Notorious Teijin Scandal by Richard H. MitchellJames C. Baxter
- MN 58:3 (2003) 419–22We the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution by Dale M. HellegersJ. Victor Koschmann
- MN 58:3 (2003) 422–24Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan by Susan Blakeley KleinAileen Gatten
- MN 58:3 (2003) 424–27Kawabata, le clair-obscur by Cécile SakaiGiorgio Amitrano
- MN 58:3 (2003) 427–30The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan by Shiro Okamoto, Samuel L. LeiterJanet E. Goff
- MN 58:3 (2003) 430–32Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting by Brenda G. Jordan, Victoria WestonQuitman E. Phillips
- MN 58:3 (2003) 433–35Master Potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842–1916) and His Workshop by Clare PollardRichard L. Wilson
- MN 58:3 (2003) 435–37A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi, Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi, Hiroyuki TakasakiBrett L. Walker