Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 67, Number 2 (2012)- MN 67:2 (2012) 201–38Gendering the Court Woman Poet: Pedigree and Portrayal in Fukuro zōshiRoselee Bundy
- MN 67:2 (2012) 239–62Conflating Monastic and Imperial Lineage: The Retired Emperors’ Period ReformulatedMikael Bauer
- MN 67:2 (2012) 263–82The Dōshu: Clerics at Work in Early Medieval Japanese MonasteriesMikael S. Adolphson
- MN 67:2 (2012) 283–327(The Other) Yoshida Shigeru and the Expansion of Bureaucratic Power in Prewar JapanRoger H. Brown
- MN 67:2 (2012) 329–34Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan by Melissa McCormickMasahiko Aizawa
- MN 67:2 (2012) 334–37Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War by Andrew Edmund GobleFrederik Cryns
- MN 67:2 (2012) 338–41The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan by Emanuel PastreichPeter Flueckiger
- MN 67:2 (2012) 341–43Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640–1868 by Robert I. HellyerRyūtō Shimada
- MN 67:2 (2012) 343–48Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 1 (1850–1920) and Volume 2 (1920–Present) ed. Sven Saaler, Christopher W. A. SzpilmanDick Stegewerns
- MN 67:2 (2012) 348–52Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State by Janis MimuraChristopher W. A. Szpilman
- MN 67:2 (2012) 352–55Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan by Benjamin DormanInken Prohl
- MN 67:2 (2012) 355–61Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism by Mark Michael RoweYoshimasa Ikegami
- MN 67:2 (2012) 361–64Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals by Paula AraiGina Cogan
- MN 67:2 (2012) 364–66Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook ed. James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, John C. MaraldoMayuko Uehara
- MN 67:2 (2012) 366–69Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868−2000 ed. J. Thomas RimerToby Slade
- MN 67:2 (2012) 369–71Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam SasBruce Baird
- MN 67:2 (2012) 371–74“The Moon over the Mountain”: Stories by Atsushi Nakajima trans. Paul McCarthy, Nobuko Ochner —8Charles De Wolf
- MN 67:2 (2012) 374–76Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga by Jennifer S. Prough —7Susan Napier
- MN 67:2 (2012) 376–81Recreating Japanese Men ed. Sabine Frühstück, Anne Walthall —6Michael Lewis
- MN 67:2 (2012) 381–84Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics by Sherry L. Martin —5Deborah J. Milly
- MN 67:2 (2012) 384–87Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan by Martin Dusinberre —4Takehiro Watanabe