Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 64, Number 1 (2009)- MN 64:1 (2009) 1–52The Lamp-Oil Merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine: Transregional Commerce in Medieval JapanSuzanne Gay
- MN 64:1 (2009) 53–82One Classic and Two Classical Traditions: The Recovery and Transmission of a Lost Edition of the AnalectsBenjamin A. Elman
- MN 64:1 (2009) 83–125Clerical Demographics in the Edo-Meiji Transition: Shingon and Tōzanha Shugendō in Western SagamiBarbara Ambros
- MN 64:1 (2009) 127–66Narrative Realism and the Modern Storyteller: Rereading Yanagita Kunio’s Tōno MonogatariMelek Ortabasi
- MN 64:1 (2009) 167–70Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku by Noel J. PinningtonSusan Blakeley Klein
- MN 64:1 (2009) 170–73Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005 by Patricia J. GrahamSamuel C. Morse
- MN 64:1 (2009) 174–77Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony RothmanNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:1 (2009) 177–80The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760–1806). Volume 9 of Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute ed. W. J. BootAnn Bowman Jannetta
- MN 64:1 (2009) 180–83When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane’s Ethnography of the Other World by Wilburn HansenAnne Walthall
- MN 64:1 (2009) 183–85The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan by Ann JannettaSusan L. Burns
- MN 64:1 (2009) 185–88The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori by Mark RavinaConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 64:1 (2009) 189–91Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of “Literature” in Meiji Japan by Atsuko UedaIndra Levy
- MN 64:1 (2009) 192–95An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel by Ken K. ItoMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 64:1 (2009) 195–98The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitō, 1911–16 by Jan BardsleyReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 64:1 (2009) 198–201Hermann Roesler: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Werk ed. Anna Bartels-IshikawaSven Saaler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 201–204A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembō, Popular Song, and Modern Mass Culture in Japan by Michael LewisGerald Groemer
- MN 64:1 (2009) 204–207Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan by Nancy K. StalkerBirgit Staemmler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 207–10Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938 by Thomas W. BurkmanSusan Townsend
- MN 64:1 (2009) 210–13Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media by David C. EarhartBarak Kushner
- MN 64:1 (2009) 213–16The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II by Yuma TotaniFranziska Seraphim
- MN 64:1 (2009) 216–19The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity by Catherine RussellRachael Hutchinson
- MN 64:1 (2009) 219–23The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States by Rebecca SuterIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 64:1 (2009) 223–26Alles nur Theater? Gender und Ethnizität bei der japankoreanischen Autorin Yū Miri by Kristina Iwata-WeickgenanntMatthew Königsberg
- MN 64:1 (2009) 226–29Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army by Sabine FrühstückSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 64:1 (2009) 230–33CorrespondenceThomas Conlan and Judith Fröhlich