Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 64, Number 2 (2009)- MN 64:2 (2009) 235–71Before the First Buddha: Medieval Japanese Cosmogony and the Quest for the Primeval KamiFabio Rambelli
- MN 64:2 (2009) 273–313Predators, Protectors, and Purveyors: Pirates and Commerce in Late Medieval JapanPeter D. Shapinsky
- MN 64:2 (2009) 315–35Fragments of Friendship: Matsuo Taseko and the Hirata FamilyAnne Walthall
- MN 64:2 (2009) 337–62Demographic Estimates and the Issue of Staple Food in Early JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 64:2 (2009) 363–72The Latter Days of the GenjiRebekah Clements and Peter F. Kornicki
- MN 64:2 (2009) 373–78The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan by Donald F. McCallum; Nagaoka: Japan’s Forgotten Capital by Ellen Van GoethemWalter Edwards
- MN 64:2 (2009) 378–79Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Charlotte von Verschuer, trans. Kristen Lee HunterBruce L. Batten
- MN 64:2 (2009) 380–81A Handbook to Classical Japanese by John Timothy WixtedAldo Tollini
- MN 64:2 (2009) 381–84Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan by R. Keller KimbroughMargaret H. Childs
- MN 64:2 (2009) 384–86Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike by David T. BialockMichael G. Watson
- MN 64:2 (2009) 387–90Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales by Michelle Osterfeld LiRajyashree Pandey
- MN 64:2 (2009) 390–93Zeami: Performance Notes trans. Tom HareEric C. Rath
- MN 64:2 (2009) 393–97Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater by Thomas D. LooserNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:2 (2009) 397–400Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos VaporisAnna Beerens
- MN 64:2 (2009) 400–404Moderne japanische Literatur in deutscher Übersetzung: Eine Bibliographie der Jahre 1868–2008 ed. Jürgen Stalph, Christoph Petermann, Matthias Wittig; Japanische Literatur im Spiegel deutscher Rezensionen ed. Junko Ando, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Matthias HoopHilaria Gössmann
- MN 64:2 (2009) 405–408Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai by Michael Dylan FosterSatoko Shimazaki
- MN 64:2 (2009) 408–11Crossing Empire’s Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia by Erik EsselstromSelcuk Esenbel
- MN 64:2 (2009) 412–14When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism by Gregory GolleyMark Williams
- MN 64:2 (2009) 415–18Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature by Tomoko AoyamaIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 64:2 (2009) 418–24Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture by Sari Kawana; Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937 by Mark SilverEvelyn Schulz
- MN 64:2 (2009) 424–28Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan ed. and trans. Richard F. CalichmanChristian Uhl
- MN 64:2 (2009) 428–31Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan by Rachel DiNittoAlisa Freedman
- MN 64:2 (2009) 431–33Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan by Elyssa FaisonSally Ann Hastings
- MN 64:2 (2009) 434–35Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity by Sharalyn OrbaughEve Zimmerman
- MN 64:2 (2009) 436–38Ausgekochtes Wunderland: Japanische Literatur lesen by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitKristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
- MN 64:2 (2009) 439–41Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance by Davinder L. BhowmikMichael Molasky
- MN 64:2 (2009) 442–44War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges by Yoshiko NozakiKristine Dennehy
- MN 64:2 (2009) 445–49Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime ed. Mark W. MacWilliamsLynne K. Miyake