Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 63, Number 2 (2008)- MN 63:2 (2008) 211–38Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi’s KokuikōPeter Flueckiger
- MN 63:2 (2008) 239–63Reflections on the Meaning of Our CountryKamo no Mabuchi, Translated by Peter Flueckiger
- MN 63:2 (2008) 265–81Interview with Two Ladies of the Ōoku: A Translation from Kyūji ShimonrokuAnna Beerens
- MN 63:2 (2008) 283–324Interview with Two Ladies of the ŌokuTranslated by Anna Beerens
- MN 63:2 (2008) 325–57Literature as Life-Form: Media and Modernism in the Literary Theory of Ōkuma NobuyukiWilliam O. Gardner
- MN 63:2 (2008) 359–92Graphically Speaking: Manga Versions of The Tale of GenjiLynne K. Miyake
- MN 63:2 (2008) 393–95State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-century Ruling Elite by Gina BarnesWalter Edwards
- MN 63:2 (2008) 396–99La cour et l’administration du Japon à l’époque de Heian by Francine HérailCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 63:2 (2008) 400–402Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries ed. Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, Stacie MatsumotoThomas E. Keirstead
- MN 63:2 (2008) 402–404The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History by Mikael S. AdolphsonD. Max Moerman
- MN 63:2 (2008) 405–408Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism by Fabio RambelliHank Glassman
- MN 63:2 (2008) 408–10Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History by Steven D. CarterRoselee Bundy
- MN 63:2 (2008) 411–13Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku by Paul S. AtkinsRichard A. Gardner
- MN 63:2 (2008) 414–16Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan by Barbara AmbrosLaura Nenzi
- MN 63:2 (2008) 417–19Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty by Julie Nelson DavisAllen Hockley
- MN 63:2 (2008) 419–22The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan by Kyu Hyun KimNeil L. Waters
- MN 63:2 (2008) 423–25Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan by David G. WittnerSteven J. Ericson
- MN 63:2 (2008) 425–27Yamaji Aizan and His Time: Nationalism and Debating Japanese History by Yushi ItoGraham Squires
- MN 63:2 (2008) 428–31Petitessen, Pretiosen: Die Prosaminiatur in Japan um 1910 by Agnes Fink-von HoffJanet A. Walker
- MN 63:2 (2008) 431–33From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes by Richard J. SmethurstJames C. Baxter
- MN 63:2 (2008) 434–36Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times by Miriam SilverbergJeffrey Angles
- MN 63:2 (2008) 436–39Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Kim BrandtJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 63:2 (2008) 440–42Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s Past ed. John BreenTadashi Anno
- MN 63:2 (2008) 442–45Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction by Eve ZimmermanMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 63:2 (2008) 445–47Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime ed. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Takayuki TatsumiGerald Figal