Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 79:2 (2024) New 274–78The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877 ed. by David L. HowellTimothy D. Amos- MN 79:2 (2024) New 285–88Japanese Racial Identities within US-Japan Relations, 1853–1919 by Tarik MeridaRotem Kowner
MN 79:1 (2024) 33–82Overcoming Modernity, Exonerating Empire: Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko and the Ironies of Early Shōwa CatholicismChristopher T. Lough
MN 78:2 (2023) 157–87Before the Storm: A Transrealm History of the Decades Leading Up to the First Mongol Invasion of JapanLina Nie
MN 77:1 (2022) 27–75Jesuit Printing and Hiragana BooksTakahiro Sasaki- MN 77:1 (2022) 77–107Sacred Noh at Kanda MyōjinGerald Groemer
MN 76:2 (2021) 291–328Edo Castle as a Consumer: Procuring Fish for the Shogun’s TableYūjirō Ōguchi- MN 76:2 (2021) 329–61The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan’s Modern BuddhismStephan Kigensan Licha
MN 76:1 (2021) 1–68The Tragedy of Quabacondono: An Elizabethan Account of the Last Days of Toyotomi HidetsugiLiam Matthew Brockey and Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas- MN 76:1 (2021) 69–115Nihon Gaishi Goes Global: A Translation History of a Nineteenth-Century BlockbusterRobert Tuck
- MN 76:1 (2021) 117–62A Pernicious Gang: Ōshio Chūsai and the Prosecution of Heretics in Late Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
MN 75:2 (2020) 205–39Visualizing Hungry Ghosts in Heian Japan: Gakizōshi Scrolls as “Translation”Haruko Wakabayashi- MN 75:2 (2020) 241–79An Entrepreneurial Aristocrat: Matsugi Hisanao and the Forging of Imperial Service in Late Medieval JapanPaula R. Curtis
- MN 75:2 (2020) 281–315Childbirth in Japan circa 1700: Gleanings from the Diary of Yamamoto HeizaemonMichael Burtscher and Fuyuhiko Yokota
MN 75:1 (2020) 91–122The Massacre of Koreans in Yokohama in the Aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923Kenji Hasegawa
MN 74:1 (2019) 1–32Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early JapanJoshua Frydman
MN 73:2 (2018) 187–212Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic CoolingKeisuke Itō and Paula R. Curtis- MN 73:2 (2018) 213–44Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification CampaignMichael Burtscher and Mika Odaira
MN 73:1 (2018) 27–85The Aestheticization of Korean Suffering in the Colonial Period: A Translation of Yanagi Sōetsu’s Chōsen no BijutsuPenny Bailey
MN 72:2 (2017) 189–222Illustrated Debate over Wine and Rice (Shuhanron Emaki) : Dining and Socializing in Late Muromachi JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
MN 72:1 (2017) 1–30Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate’s Last Years: Gountei Sadahide’s Bird’s-Eye View Landscape PrintsFumiko Sugimoto and Michael Burtscher
MN 71:1 (2016) 83–117Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885Steven J. Ericson
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 70:1 (2015) 1–38Disaster in the Making: Taira no Kiyomori’s Move of the Capital to FukuharaHaruko Wakabayashi- MN 70:1 (2015) 83–122Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period TosaLuke S. Roberts
MN 69:2 (2014) 221–54Japan’s Inca Boom: Global Archaeology and the Making of a Postwar NationMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
MN 69:1 (2014) 55–101Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Urban Relief and Domain Society during the Tenmei FamineMaren Ehlers
MN 68:2 (2013) 207–31Commemorating Failure: The Four Hundredth Anniversary of England’s Trading Outpost in JapanAdam Clulow
MN 68:1 (2013) 69–77Translating the Corpus of Ancient Japanese LawHerman Ooms
MN 67:2 (2012) 239–62Conflating Monastic and Imperial Lineage: The Retired Emperors’ Period ReformulatedMikael Bauer- MN 67:2 (2012) 283–327(The Other) Yoshida Shigeru and the Expansion of Bureaucratic Power in Prewar JapanRoger H. Brown
MN 66:2 (2011) 281–318Japan’s “Nationality Clause” and the Changing Dynamics of Center-Local PoliticsKate Dunlop- MN 66:2 (2011) 319–33Fascist Moments: New Research on Twentieth-Century Japanese Aesthetics and IdeologyIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
MN 66:1 (2011) 99–122King Willem II’s 1844 Letter to the Shogun: “Recommendation to Open the Country”Adam Clulow and Fuyuko Matsukata
MN 65:2 (2010) 297–356Kanazōshi Revisited: The Beginnings of Japanese Popular Literature in PrintLaura Moretti
MN 65:1 (2010) 1–35From Global Entrepôt to Early Modern Domain: Hirado, 1609–1641Adam Clulow- MN 65:1 (2010) 37–88Meiji Kyoto Textile Art and TakashimayaHiroko T. McDermott
- MN 65:1 (2010) 89–136How Yasukuni Shrine Survived the Occupation: A Critical Examination of Popular ClaimsMark R. Mullins
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 64:1 (2009) 1–52The Lamp-Oil Merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine: Transregional Commerce in Medieval JapanSuzanne Gay
MN 63:2 (2008) 265–81Interview with Two Ladies of the Ōoku: A Translation from Kyūji ShimonrokuAnna Beerens- MN 63:2 (2008) 283–324Interview with Two Ladies of the ŌokuTranslated by Anna Beerens
MN 63:1 (2008) 51–99Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National SymbolAndrew Bernstein
MN 62:4 (2007) 397–435Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin DocumentsWilliam Wayne Farris