Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 57:3 (2002) 309–37The Unfinished Cartography: Murakami Haruki and the Postmodern Cognitive MapChiyoko Kawakami
MN 57:2 (2002) 133–71Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and “The Matsushima Diary”R. Keller Kimbrough
MN 57:1 (2002) 73–89The Love Suicides at Shinagawa: A Sort of Love StoryDavid Pollack- MN 57:1 (2002) 78–89The Love Suicides at ShinagawaEdited by David Pollack
MN 56:4 (2001) 439–86Yosano Akiko’s Poems: “In Praise of The Tale of Genji”G. G. Rowley
MN 56:3 (2001) 295–347Chats with the Master: Selections from “Kensai Zōdan”Steven D. Carter
MN 56:1 (2001) 1–38Tadano Makuzu and Her Hitori KangaeBettina Gramlich-Oka- MN 56:1 (2001) 39–91Civil Administration on South Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, 1945–1948: The Memoirs of Dmitrii N. KriukovMariya Sevela
- MN 56:1 (2001) 93–98Families-at-Risk in a Medieval TaleWilliam R. LaFleur
MN 55:4 (2000) 567–577The Nobumitsu Portrait Inscription: An Annotated TranslationBeng Choo Lim
MN 55:3 (2000) 369–98Interview with a Bakumatsu Official: A Translation from Kyūji Shimonroku (Part 1)Anna Beerens
MN 55:2 (2000) 271–81Performing TheoryDennis Washburn
MN 55:1 (2000) 1–43Record of an Autumn Wind: The Travel Diary of Arii ShokyūHiroaki Sato- MN 55:1 (2000) 14–43Record of an Autumn WindArii Shokyū, Translated by Hiroaki Sato
- MN 55:1 (2000) 83–108Kajin no Kigū: The Meiji Political Novel and the Boundaries of LiteratureAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 55:1 (2000) 109–20His Story of Japan: Engelbert Kaempfer’s Manuscript in a New TranslationWolfgang Michel
MN 54:4 (1999) 435–80“I Am I”: Genji and MurasakiRoyall Tyler
MN 54:3 (1999) 361–85Myth in Metamorphosis: Ancient and Medieval Versions of the Yamatotakeru LegendJun'ichi Isomae- MN 54:3 (1999) 305–31Bamboo Voice Peach Blossom: Speech, Silence, and Subjective ExperienceMatthew Mizenko
MN 54:2 (1999) 259–65“To Learn What Fear Was”: Comparative Studies at the AbyssIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit- MN 54:2 (1999) 195–215Izumi Kyōka’s Uta Andon: Between Anachronism and the Avant-gardeChiyoko Kawakami
MN 54:1 (1999) 1–39Japan’s Foreign Relations 600 to 1200 A.D.: A Translation from Zenrin KokuhōkiCharlotte von Verschuer
MN 53:4 (1998) 473–98The Significance of Bodies in Sōseki’s KokoroStephen Dodd- MN 53:4 (1998) 529–547Her Story So FarMark Morris
MN 53:2 (1998) 153–95Fact, Fiction, and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in Tōnomine Shōshō MonogatariAileen Gatten
MN 52:4 (1997) 441–65Allegories of Desire: Poetry and Eroticism in Ise Monogatari ZuinōSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 52:4 (1997) 467–521Saigyō’s Traveling Tale: A Translation of Saigyō MonogatariGustav Heldt
MN 52:2 (1997) 181–99Tarrying with the Negative: Aesthetic Vision in Murasaki and MishimaJohn R. Wallace
MN 51:3 (1996) 279–307A Tour of Duty: Kurume Hanshi Edo Kinban Nagaya EmakiConstantine N. Vaporis
MN 51:2 (1996) 219–44An Errant Priest: Sasayaki TakeFrederick G. Kavanagh
MN 50:4 (1995) 523–528Beauty and Illusion: Tanizaki in VenicePaul McCarthy
MN 50:3 (1995) 305–23The Literature and Politics of Abe Kōbō: Farewell to Communism in Suna no OnnaMutsuko Motoyama- MN 50:3 (1995) 325–56Women, Sexuality, and Enlightenment: Kankyo no TomoRajyashree Pandey
MN 50:1 (1995) 67–102The Splendor of Self-Exaltation: The Life and Fiction of Okamoto KanokoMaryellen Toman Mori
MN 49:4 (1994) 391–412The Making of a Femme Fatale: Ono no Komachi in the Early Medieval CommentariesSarah M. Strong
MN 49:3 (1994) 287–314Fantasies, Fairies, and Electric Dreams: Satō Haruo’s Critique of TaishōStephen Dodd- MN 49:3 (1994) 353–73Ōgai and the Problem of Fiction: Gan and Its AntecedentsStephen Snyder
MN 49:1 (1994) 31–60She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Shinjū and Shikidō ŌkagamiLawrence Rogers
MN 48:4 (1993) 469–88Kokoro and ‘the Spirit of Meiji’Isamu Fukuchi
MN 48:1 (1993) 1–31The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love: Kitamura Kigin’s IwatsutsujiPaul Gordon Schalow
MN 47:4 (1992) 469–93Notable Tales Old and New: Tachibana Narisue’s Kokon ChomonjūYoshiko Kurata Dykstra
MN 47:3 (1992) 299–321Suki and Religious Awakening: Kamo no Chōmei’s HosshinshūRajyashree Pandey- MN 47:3 (1992) 347–68Strange Fates: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Torikaebaya MonogatariGregory M. Pflugfelder
MN 47:2 (1992) 241–63Innocence and the Other World: The Tales of Miyazawa KenjiTakao Hagiwara
MN 46:4 (1991) 513–541Mirroring SaikakuChristopher Drake
MN 46:3 (1991) 275–91Takamura MonogatariWard Geddes
MN 46:2 (1991) 147–71Twin Blossoms on a Single Branch: The Cycle of Retribution in OnnamenDoris G. Bargen
MN 46:1 (1991) 43–68Water Imagery in the Work of Izumi KyōkaCharles Shirō Inouye