Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 72, Number 2 (2017)- MN 72:2 (2017) 153–87Cultural Knowledge and Professional Training in the Poetic Treatises of Late Heian JapanAriel Stilerman
- MN 72:2 (2017) 189–222Illustrated Debate over Wine and Rice (Shuhanron Emaki) : Dining and Socializing in Late Muromachi JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 72:2 (2017) 223–64A Parody in the Ruins: A Translation of Irisawa Yasuo’s Waga Izumo, Waga Chinkon (Part 2)Scott Mehl, Translated by Scott Mehl, Original by Yasuo Irisawa
- MN 72:2 (2017) 225–64My Izumo, My Requiem (Part 2)Yasuo Irisawa, Translated by Scott Mehl
- MN 72:2 (2017) 265–69Kindheit in der japanischen Geschichte: Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen/Childhood in Japanese History: Concepts and Experiences ed. Michael Kinski, Harald Salomon, Eike GroßmannSabine Frühstück
- MN 72:2 (2017) 270–75Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory ed. Mikael S. Adolphson, Anne CommonsRobert Borgen
- MN 72:2 (2017) 275–77Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan by Jacqueline I. StoneGary L. Ebersole
- MN 72:2 (2017) 278–81Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan by Edward R. DrottRajyashree Pandey
- MN 72:2 (2017) 281–86Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives by Rajyashree PandeyVyjayanthi R. Selinger
- MN 72:2 (2017) 287–93Dōgen and Sōtō Zen ed. Steven HeineTaigen Dan Leighton
- MN 72:2 (2017) 293–99Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan by Anna AndreevaMark Teeuwen
- MN 72:2 (2017) 299–305Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350–1850 ed. Martha ChaiklinCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 72:2 (2017) 305–14The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush, ed. William J. Haboush, Jisoo M. KimJames B. Lewis
- MN 72:2 (2017) 314–17Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 ed. Tonio Andrade, Xing HangNaoko Iioka
- MN 72:2 (2017) 317–21In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582–1860 by Richard BowringMark T. McNally
- MN 72:2 (2017) 322–25Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan by Noell WilsonLuke S. Roberts
- MN 72:2 (2017) 325–31Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974 by Stefan Huebner; Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II: Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home? by Sven Matthiessen; Asianisms: Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration ed. Marc Frey, Nicola SpakowskiJeff Kingston
- MN 72:2 (2017) 331–34Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O’DwyerRana Mitter
- MN 72:2 (2017) 334–37Surviving in Violent Conflicts: Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931–1945 by Ting GuoParks M. Coble
- MN 72:2 (2017) 337–44Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō by Richard F. CalichmanSeth Jacobowitz
- MN 72:2 (2017) 344–50Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan by Joseph D. HankinsDaniel Botsman
- MN 72:2 (2017) 350–54Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance by Geoffrey M. White; Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Lisa YoneyamaAkiko Hashimoto
- MN 72:2 (2017) 354–56Post-war Japan as a Sea Power: Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of a Navy by Alessio PatalanoJames R. Holmes
- MN 72:2 (2017) 356–61Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law by J. Mark RamseyerColin P.A. Jones
- MN 72:2 (2017) 361–68Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima by Aya Hirata KimuraRyo Morimoto