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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 63, Number 1 (2008)- MN 63:1 (2008) 1–50The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and ImaginationCaroline Hirasawa
- MN 63:1 (2008) 51–99Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National SymbolAndrew Bernstein
- MN 63:1 (2008) 101–41Seeking the Strange: Ryōki and the Navigation of Normality in Interwar JapanJeffrey Angles
- MN 63:1 (2008) 143–60Reading a Heian Blog: A New Translation of Makura no SōshiMachiko Midorikawa
- MN 63:1 (2008) 161–63Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan: Ategawa no shō 1004–1304 by Judith FröhlichThomas Conlan
- MN 63:1 (2008) 164–66Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan by William R. LindseyAmy Stanley
- MN 63:1 (2008) 167–69Japan’s Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889–1946: With a Supporting Study of the Kan/Min Division of Woodland in Early Meiji Japan, 1871–76 by Conrad TotmanDavid L. Howell
- MN 63:1 (2008) 169–72Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan by Andrew BernsteinJohn Breen
- MN 63:1 (2008) 172–74Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität 1919–1952 by Hans Martin KrämerHarald Fuess
- MN 63:1 (2008) 174–78Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation by Stephen G. CovellMark L. Blum
- MN 63:1 (2008) 178–81Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis und Diskriminierung: Die gegenwärtige Diskussion im Shin-Buddhismus Japans by Simone HeideggerJoseph S. O’Leary
- MN 63:1 (2008) 181–84Traditional Japanese Literature ed. Haruo ShiraneRobert N. Huey
- MN 63:1 (2008) 184–90Secrecy in Japanese Arts: “Secret Transmission” as a Mode of Knowledge by Maki MorinagaSusan Blakeley Klein
- MN 63:1 (2008) 190–93Bashō and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai by Peipei QiuLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 63:1 (2008) 193–95Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival by Cheryl A. CrowleyRoger K. Thomas
- MN 63:1 (2008) 196–98The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan ed. Rebecca Copeland, Melek OrtabasiReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 63:1 (2008) 198–203Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery by Gregory P. A. LevineYukio Lippit
- MN 63:1 (2008) 203–205Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism by Thomas R. H. HavensWilliam O. Gardner
- MN 63:1 (2008) 206–208The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture by Mari BoydBrian Powell
- MN 63:1 (2008) 208–10Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity by Katarzyna J. CwiertkaJames Farrer
- MN 63:1 (2008) 211–12Editorial Notes