Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 70, Number 2 (2015)- MN 70:2 (2015) 189–235Yoshino and the Politics of Cultural Topography in Early JapanTorquil Duthie
- MN 70:2 (2015) 237–83104 Voices from Christian Nagasaki: Document of the Rosario Brotherhood of Nagasaki with the Signatures of Its Members (February 1622) : An Analysis and TranslationReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 70:2 (2015) 267–83Document of the Rosario Brotherhood of Nagasaki with the Signatures of Its MembersReinier H. Hesselink, Translated by Reinier H. Hesselink
- MN 70:2 (2015) 285–88Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present ed. Bruce L. Batten, Philip C. BrownPatricia Sippel
- MN 70:2 (2015) 289–93Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation by Joshua S. MostowIvo Smits
- MN 70:2 (2015) 293–97Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan by Peter D. ShapinskyNoell Wilson
- MN 70:2 (2015) 297–300A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang ed. and trans. JaHyun Kim Haboush, Kenneth R. RobinsonJames B. Lewis
- MN 70:2 (2015) 301–305The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo by Miriam WattlesPauline Ayumi Ota
- MN 70:2 (2015) 306–309The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan by Gina CoganG. G. Rowley
- MN 70:2 (2015) 309–14Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan ed. Matthias Hayek, Annick HoriuchiBrian W. Platt
- MN 70:2 (2015) 314–21Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake by Gregory Smits; When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan by Gregory SmitsM. William Steele
- MN 70:2 (2015) 321–26Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan by Hiraku ShimodaJames L. Huffman
- MN 70:2 (2015) 326–28Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee KimJames Mark Shields
- MN 70:2 (2015) 329–31The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo by Ian Jared MillerMartha Chaiklin
- MN 70:2 (2015) 331–36Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan by Rosina BucklandAida Yuen Wong
- MN 70:2 (2015) 336–41An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937 by Jung-Sun N. HanPaul E. Dunscomb
- MN 70:2 (2015) 341–44In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere by Faye Yuan KleemanJohn Whittier Treat
- MN 70:2 (2015) 345–48Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan by Noriko AsoKendall H. Brown
- MN 70:2 (2015) 348–51On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan by Jeffrey Paul BaylissKristine Dennehy
- MN 70:2 (2015) 352–56Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice by Kristin SurakNancy Stalker
- MN 70:2 (2015) 356–62The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke MiyaoDiane Wei Lewis
- MN 70:2 (2015) 363–67The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956 by Andrew E. BarshayLori Watt
- MN 70:2 (2015) 367–71Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics by Yuriko FuruhataMariko Shigeta Schimmel
- MN 70:2 (2015) 371–76Precarious Japan by Anne AllisonDaniel White