Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 48:4 (1993) 429–67The Meaning of Matrilocality: Kinship, Property, and Politics in Mid-HeianPeter Nickerson
MN 48:3 (1993) 293–314The Persecution of Confucianism in Early Tokugawa JapanBeatrice Bodart-Bailey- MN 48:3 (1993) 337–57Scholarship and Ideology in Conflict: The Kume Affair, 1892Margaret Mehl
MN 48:2 (1993) 205–24Wasan and the Physics that Wasn’t: Mathematics in the Tokugawa PeriodMark Ravina
MN 47:4 (1992) 435–67Religious Life of the Kamakura Bushi: Kumagai Naozane and His DescendantsFumiko Miyazaki
MN 47:2 (1992) 163–202Bonshōgatsu: Festivals and State Power in KanazawaJames L. McClain- MN 47:2 (1992) 194–202Bonshōgatsu NohTranslated by James L. McClain
- MN 47:2 (1992) 265–72The Brits in JapanMichael Cooper
MN 47:1 (1992) 1–25Opium, Expulsion, Sovereignty: China’s Lessons for Bakumatsu JapanBob Tadashi Wakabayashi- MN 47:1 (1992) 59–76Preindustrial River Conservancy: Causes and ConsequencesConrad Totman
MN 46:4 (1991) 483–512Both a Borrower and a Lender Be: From Village Moneylender to Rural Banker in the Tempō EraRonald P. Toby
MN 46:3 (1991) 349–68Emperor Hirohito and Early Shōwa JapanStephen S. Large
MN 46:2 (1991) 211–35Yoshinogari: A Yayoi Settlement in Northern KyushuGina L. Barnes and Mark J. Hudson- MN 46:2 (1991) 237–52The Middle Ages Survey’dCarl Steenstrup
MN 46:1 (1991) 69–90Land of the Rising Sun: The Predominant East-West Axis among the Early JapaneseEdwina Palmer- MN 46:1 (1991) 91–103Japanese Castaways and British InterpretersW. G. Beasley
MN 45:4 (1990) 449–70Mokkan: Wooden Documents from the Nara PeriodJoan R. Piggott
MN 45:3 (1990) 339–52Toward a History of Twentieth-Century JapanSheldon Garon
MN 45:2 (1990) 127–55Edo in 1868: The View from BelowM. William Steele- MN 45:2 (1990) 189–205The Japonian Charters: The English and Dutch ShuinjōDerek Massarella and Izumi K. Tytler
- MN 45:2 (1990) 207–28Meiji in the Rear-View Mirror: Top Down vs. Bottom Up HistoryF. G. Notehelfer
MN 45:1 (1990) 75–85Saddle Bows and Rump Plumes: More on the Fujinoki TombJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
MN 44:4 (1989) 415–60The Fujinoki SarcophagusJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.- MN 44:4 (1989) 461–83Caveat Viator: Advice to Travelers in the Edo PeriodConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 44:4 (1989) 469–83Ryokō YōjinshūYasumi Roan, Translated by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
MN 44:2 (1989) 199–219Persecuted Patriot: Watanabe Kazan and the Tokugawa BakufuBonnie Abiko
MN 44:1 (1989) 45–74Sacral Kingship and Confederacy in Early IzumoJoan R. Piggott
MN 43:3 (1988) 279–303Village Networks: Sōdai and the Sale of Edo NightsoilAnne Walthall
MN 43:2 (1988) 153–85Teeth and Claws: Provincial Warriors and the Heian CourtKarl F. Friday
MN 43:1 (1988) 1–33Kaempfer Restor’dBeatrice M. Bodart Bailey
MN 42:2 (1987) 115–55The Mismeasure of Land: Land Surveying in the Tokugawa PeriodPhilip C. Brown
MN 42:1 (1987) 57–87The Fujinoki Tomb and Its Grave-GoodsJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
MN 41:4 (1986) 377–414Post Station and Assisting Villages: Corvée Labor and Peasant ContentionConstantine Nomikos Vaporis- MN 41:4 (1986) 415–56Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular CultureRonald P. Toby
- MN 41:4 (1986) 457–76Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?Conrad Totman
Monographs (1986) 1–168Shōmonki: The Story of Masakado’s RebellionTranslated by Judith N. Rabinovitch
MN 41:3 (1986) 299–330The Samurai Disestablished: Abei Iwane and His StipendGeorge Akita and Masatoshi Sakeda
MN 41:2 (1986) 199–219Foreign Threat and Domestic Reform: The Emergence of the Ritsuryō StateBruce L. Batten
MN 40:3 (1985) 311–30Fragmented Estates: The Breakup of the Myō and the Decline of the Shōen SystemThomas E. Keirstead- MN 40:3 (1985) 331–47Why Leave Nara?: Kammu and the Transfer of the CapitalRonald P. Toby
MN 40:2 (1985) 163–89The Laws of CompassionBeatrice Bodart-Bailey- MN 40:2 (1985) 191–208The Inversion of Progress: Taoka Reiun’s HibunmeironRonald P. Loftus
MN 40:1 (1985) 69–96Forging the Past: Medieval Counterfeit DocumentsHitomi Tonomura
MN 39:4 (1984) 371–92Peripheries: Rural Culture in Tokugawa JapanAnne Walthall
MN 39:3 (1984) 333–50Hakuseki’s Reading of HistoryHerman Ooms
MN 39:2 (1984) 147–61The Pestilently Active Minister: Dr Willis’s Comments on Sir Harry ParkesHugh Cortazzi- MN 39:2 (1984) 163–7531 CISHAANCarl Steenstrup
MN 39:1 (1984) 1–10Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation in the Edo PeriodConrad Totman